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HUMAN    WELFARE    WORK    IN 
CHICAGO 


HUMAN 

WELFARE  WORK 

IN  CHICAGO 


EDITED  BY 

HARVEY  C.  CARBAUGH 

Colonel  and  Judge  Advocate,   U.  S.  Arjny,  Retired' 

Member  and  Secretary  Civil  Service  Board 

South  Park  Comtnissioners 

ILLUSTRATED 


CHICAGO 

A.  C.  McCLURG  &  CO. 

1917 


Copyright 

A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co. 
1917 


Published  March,  19a  7 


Press  of 
Rand   McNally  &  Co.,  Chicago 


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PREFACE 

T^HE  preparation  of  this  volume  has  been 
made  possible  through  the  assistance  with- 
out compensation  of  the  writers  of  the  several 
chapters.  Grateful  acknowledgment  is  expressed 
for  the  cordial  help  given  by  the  many  organiza- 
tions and  agencies  in  providing  information  and 
pictures  relating  to  their  work. 

Its  publication  is  due  to  the  financial  gener- 
osity of  Judge  John  Barton  Payne,  President 
of  the  South  Park  Commissioners. 

The  inception  of  this  summary  originated  in 
the  belief  that  the  people  of  the  City  of  Chicago 
are  the  peers  of  those  of  any  other  city  in  human- 
istic work,  and  that  the  extent  of  such  work  was 
not  realized  even  by  those  who  were  entitled  to 
credit  for  its  performance. 

The  City  of  Chicago  increased  in  population 
from  30,000  in  1850  to  2,550,000  in  1916,  The 
city  now  covers  an  area  of  195  square  miles. 
The  real  and  personal  property  within  its  limits 
has  a  value  of  $3,127,022,913.  The  output  of 
its  manufacturing  zone  amomits  to  at  least 
$2,000,000,000  a  year.  The  wholesale  trade  of 
the  city  reaches  about  the  same  amount  in  value. 
These  facts,  taking  into  consideration  Chicago's 
enormous  banking  resources  and  its  present  im- 
portance as  a  rail  and  water  transportation  ter- 
minus, show  a  record  of  development  possibly 


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Preface 

without  a  parallel  for  rapidity  and  permanency. 
So  great  have  been  these  results  and  so  wide- 
spread has  been  the  knowledge  thereof  that  in 
many  places  Chicago  has  a  reputation  for 
excessive  devotion  to  pecuniary  and  material 
advancement.  Information  in  regard  to  the 
great  humanitarian  work  carried  on  in  Chicago 
each  year  through  municipal  and  private  agen- 
cies has  not  been  widely  disseminated.  The 
volume  of  such  w^ork  is  not,  in  general,  ap- 
preciated even  by  the  city's  own  inhabitants. 
Among  these  agencies  are  those  to  awaken  pub- 
lic conscience,  to  build  up  civic  pride,  to  promote 
local  and  national  patriotism,  and  to  stimulate 
earnest  labor  in  the  interests  of  humanity.  At 
the  cost  of  personal  sacrifice,  there  are  great 
leaders  with  a  large  army  of  co-workers  who 
consecrate  their  powers  to  the  betterment  of  the 
conditions  which  surround  their  less  fortunate 
neighbors. 

The  organizations  and  agencies  for  these 
ends  have  developed  to  such  a  degree  of  perfec- 
tion that  the  City  of  Chicago  and  County  of 
Cook  are  covered  with  a  humanitarian  network 
which  renders  it  almost  impossible  for  deserving 
cases  not  to  receive,  as  needed,  moral,  mental,  or 
physical  aid.  Harvey  C.  Carbaugh. 

Chicago,  Jan.,  1917. 


CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Introduction,  by  John  Barton  Payne,  President 

South   Park   Commissioners xiii 

Chapter  I     Art  in  Chicago,  compiled  by  the 

Editor 1 

Chapter  II  Chicago  as  a  Music  Center,  by 
Karleton  Hackett,  Director, 
The  American  Conservatory  of 
Music,  and  Musical  Critic, 
"Chicago  Evening  Post".      .      .      23 

Chapter  III  The  City's  Public  Schools,  by 
Prof.  John  D.  Shoop,  Superin- 
tendent ,  The  Chicago  Public 
Schools 39 

Chapter  IV  The  Public  Library,  by  Henry  E. 
Legler,  Librarian,  The  Chicago 
Public   Library 65 

Chapter  V  Parks  and  Boulevards,  by  J.  F. 
Neil,  Secretary,  South  Park 
Commissioners 67 

Chapter  VI  Public  Recreation,  by  John  R. 
Richards,  Superintendent  of 
Playgrounds  and  Sports,  South 
Park  Commissioners     ....      87 

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Contents 


Chai'teu     VII     A      Summary      ok      1'hilanthropic 

Work,  comi'iled  by  the  Editor  .    113 

C'liAi'TER  \'III  Philanthropic  Work  of  Religious 
Organizations,  compiled  by  the 
Editor 135 

Chapter       IX     Neighborhood  Work,  compiled  by 

the    Editor 197 


appendices 

Appendix  A  List  of  Chicago's  Parks,  Play- 
grounds, AND  Bathing  Beaches, 
compiled  by  J.  F.  Neil,  Secretary, 
South  Park  Commissioners       .      .211 

Appendix  B     List  of  Chicago's  Charitable  Organi- 
zations, compiled  by  the  Editor  .    222 
Index 258 


ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

Michigan  Avenue    Frontispiece 

The  Art  Institute 4 

Annual  Architectural  Exhibit,  The  Art  Institute 8 

Art  School  Exhibition,  The  Art  Institute 8 

The  Roman  Sculpture  Gallery,  The  Art  Institute 9 

Blackstone  Hall,  The  Art  Institute 9 

The  Antiquarian  Room,  The  Art  Institute 14 

The  Ryerson  Library,  The  Art  Institute 14 

Outdoor  sketching  class,  The  Art  Institute 16 

Indoor  sketching  class,  The  Art  Institute 15 

The  Stage,  Orchestra  Hall 28 

The  Chicago  Symphony  Orchestra 28 

The  Auditorium,  Orchestra  Hall 29 

The  Alexander  Graham  Bell  Public  School 44 

The  Carter  H.  Harrison  Technical  High  School 48 

The  Assembly  Hall,  The  Carter  H.  Harrison  Technical 

High  School 48 

The  Hyde  Park  High  School 52 

The  Assembly  Hall,  The  Hyde  Park  High  School 53 

The  Gymnasium,  The  Hyde  Park  High  School 53 

The  Chicago  Public  Library 58 

The  Reading  Room,  The  Chicago  Public  Library.  ...  60 
The  Circulation     Department,     The     Chicago     Public 

Library 60 

Humboldt  Park  Branch,  The  Chicago  Public  Library.  .  61 

Sherman  Park  Branch,  The  Chicago  Public  Library.  .  .  61 

The  Newberry  Library    64 

The  General  Reading  Room,  The  John  Crerar  Library.  65 

The  Medical  Reading  Room,  The  John  Crerar  Library.  65 

The  South  End  of  Wooded  Island,  Jackson  Park.  ...  70 

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Illustrations 


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The   Lily   Pond,   Douglas    Park 71 

The  Formal  Garden,  Garfield  Park 71 

The  Golf  Grounds,  Jackson  Park '. 72 

The  Lagoon,   Jackson    Park 73 

The   Bathing  Beach,  Jackson  Park 73 

Folk  dance.  Palmer  Park 7'1 

Children's  field  day,  Palmer  Park 74 

Pergola,  Sunken  Gardens,  Washington  Park 75 

Gage  Park   75 

The   Conservatory,  Washington    Park 78 

Boathouse  and  Lagoon,  Garfield   Park 78 

Ball   Field,   Davis  Square 79 

Hamilton   Park    79 

The  Chicago  Academy  of  Sciences 80 

Shakespeare  Statue,  Lincoln  Park 80 

Animals  in  the  Lincoln  Park  Zoo 81 

The  Garfield  Park  Conservatory 84 

Open-air  concert  in  one  of  Chicago's  Parks 84 

Park  districts  and  parks  in  the  City  of  Chicago 86 

Dvorak  Park 92 

The  Wading  Pool,  Mark  White  Square 93 

The  Wading  Pool,  McKinley  Park 93 

The  Playroom,  Pulaski  Park 94 

The  Playground,  Davis  Square 94 

The  Boys'  Gymnasium,  Hamilton  Park 95 

The  Girls'  Gymnasium,  Hamilton  Park 95 

The  Municipal  Pier 96 

Tennis,    Humboldt   Park 98 

Roque,  Washington  Park 98 

Casting,  Washington  Park  Pool 99 

Boating,  Washington  Park 99 

The  Public  Playground,  Robey  Street 102 

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The  Holden  Playground 102 

East  End  Park 103 

Adams    Park    1 03 

Sherman  Park 106 

Grandmother's  Garden,  Lincoln  Park 106 

Logan   Boulevard    107 

Drexel  Boulevard   107 

Open-air  lecture  to  mothers 118 

Open-air  lecture  with  stereopticon 119 

Little  Girls  at  Work,  Children's  Memorial  Hospital.  .  .124 

Children's    Memorial    Hospital 124 

St.  Mary's   Home  for  Children 125 

The  Chicago  Home  for  the  Friendless 125 

The  Chicago  Juvenile  Court  in  session 126 

St.  Luke's  Hospital 138 

Little  Folks  at  St.  Mary's  having  their  picture  taken.  .140 
Caring  for  the  babies  of  the  poor,  Olivet  Institute.  .  .  .148 

An   ill-nourished  baby 149 

Elizabeth  Marcy  Center 154 

The  Playground,  Elizabeth  Marcy  Center 154 

Aiken   Institute    158 

Types  of  twenty-three  nationalities,  Aiken  Institute.  .  .159 
From  rubbish  heap  to  rose  garden,  Aiken  Institute.  .  .  .160 

Raffia  Work,  Aiken   Institute 160 

The  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  Hotel 164 

The  Hotel  Lobby,  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Hotel 165 

The  Hotel  Cafeteria,  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Hotel 165 

The  Central    Building,    The    Young    Men's    Christian 

Association 166 

A  dozen  different  nationalities,  The  West  Side  Y.  M. 

C.   A 167 

Athletic  meet,  The  Sears  Roebuck  Y.  M.  C.  A 167 


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The  Central  Building,  The  Young  Women's  Christian 

Association 168 

The   Industrial  Home  for  Men,  Salvation  Army 172 

The  Young  Women's  Boarding  Home,  Salvation  Army.  172 

Christmas  baskets,  The  Salvation  Army 173 

Life-saving  Scouts,  Salvation  Army  Camp 173 

Mercy    Hospital    1 80 

Christmas  Dinner,  The  Volunteers  of  America 190 

Campers,  Fresh  Air  Camp,  The  Volunteers  of  America .  1 90 

Chicago  Commons 200 

The  University  of  Chicago  Settlement 201 

Eli  Bates  House 202 

The  Day  Nursery,  Eli  Bates  House 202 

The  Young  Men's  Club,  Eli  Bates  House 203 

The  Domestic  Science  Class,  Eli  Bates  House 203 

Hull  House   204. 

The  Labor  Museum,  Hull   House 205 

The  Boys'  Club,  Hull  House 205 

The  Playground    and    baby    tents.    The    Northwestern 

University  Settlement 206 

The  Sandpile  on  the  roof  garden.  The   Northwestern 

University  Settlement 206 

The  House  of  the  Interpreter,  The  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity Settlement 207 

The  Mothers'  Club,  The  Northwestern  University  Set- 
tlement    207 

Making  Tiles,  The  University  of  Chicago  Settlement.  .208 
The  Kindergarten,  The  University  of  Chicago  Settle- 
ment     208 

The  Field  Museum  of  Natural  History 238 

The  New  Field  Museum 238 

The  Cook   County   Hospital 246 

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INTRODUCTION 

n^HE  material  side  of  Chicago  is  well  known. 
Its  growth  from  a  lake-side  village,  nestling 
at  the  mouth  of  the  Chicago  river  in  1830,  to  a 
city  of  two  and  one-half  millions  in  1916,  is  one 
of  the  most  marvelous  instances  of  city  building 
in  world  history. 

Its  wigwam  of  1860,  from  which  the  world 
received  its  first  glimpse  of  that  embodiment  of 
common  sense  and  sterling  character — the  type 
of  civilization  of  the  middle  west — Abraham 
Lincoln,  is  celebrated  in  national  history.  Its 
disastrous  fire  of  1871,  great  in  destruction  of 
property  and  annihilation  of  homes,  business, 
and  business  buildings  of  a  city  of  more  than 
three  hundred  thousand  people,  was  also  great  in 
the  opportunity  it  gave  her  citizens  to  build  big- 
ger and  better  and  to  show  the  world  a  wonderful 
example  of  purpose,  stability,  and  enterprise. 

Its  unexampled  development  as  a  center  for 
over  thirty  railroads,  which  extend  from  east  to 
west  and  from  north  to  south,  brings  Maine,  Cali- 
fornia, the  Pacific  Ocean,  the  great  lakes,  and 
the  Gulf  of  Mexico  into  close  and  direct  com- 
munication and  makes  Chicago  the  center  of  dis- 
tribution of  the  United  States.  Its  proximity 
to  exhaustless  coal   fields;  its   development  of 


Introduction 


manufacture;  its  great  markets  for  wheat,  corn, 
cattle,  lumber — in  short  for  everything  of  the 
material  kind — conduce  to  the  development  of 
a  great  city. 

In  1893,  half  a  century  after  its  birth  as  a 
city,  Chicago  created  for  the  World's  Colum- 
bian Exposition  the  famous  "White  City,"  whose 
meteoric  splendor  lighted  two  hemispheres  and 
served  to  introduce  Chicago  to  the  peoples  of 
the  world  as  a  city  of  achievement  and  of  un- 
limited possibilities  for  service  in  art,  in  science 
and  in  all  the  finer  things  which  make  for  the 
development  and  uplift  of  the  human  race. 

Although  the  material  and  physical  side  of 
the  city  is  thus  well  known,  little  has  been  said 
of  the  great  work  in  dealing  with  the  vast  human 
problems  which  have  confronted  it.  It  may  be 
truly  said  that  Chicago — more  than  any  other 
city  of  the  western  world — is  the  melting  pot 
of  civilization.  Over  thirty-three  distinct  nation- 
alities have  made  their  contributions  to  the  popu- 
lation of  this  cosmopolitan  city.  The  native 
American  population  comprises  about  three- 
fifths  of  the  whole;  that  of  German  birth  num- 
bers a  little  less  than  one-twelfth;  the  Polish 
about  one-twentieth;  and  the  Russian  about  one- 
thirtieth.     Next  in  the  order  of  numbers  come 


Introduction 


the  Irish  the  Swede  the  Italian  and  the  Bohemian. 

The  latest  available  nationality   figui-es,  taken 

from  the  school  census  of  May,  1914-16,  are  as 
follows : 

Amer.  Born  Amer.  Born 

Fathers  Foreign      Fathers 

Amer.  Born  Born      For'n  Born  Total 
American: 

White    752,111  

Negro     54.557           806,668 

Austrian*    33,946            24,537  58,483 

Belgian     2,227              1,115  3,392 

Bohemian 49,074            53,675  102,749 

Bulgarian     590                 513  1,103 

Canadian     25,298            19,446  44,744 

Chinese 1,602                 151  1,753 

Croatian    4,485              2,828  7,313 

Danish     12,362            10,032  22,394 

English 28,905            16,809  45,714 

Finnish    1,041                 485  1,526 

German*     191,168          208,809  399,977 

Greek    6,954              1,667  8,621 

French 3,681              1,968  5,649 

Hollander     8,835              8,079  16,914 

Hungarian 22,105             9,758  31,863 

Irish     68,305            78,255  146,560 

Italian 58,782            49,378  108,160 

Japanese     269                    42  311 

Lithuanian 16,096              8,554  24,650 

Mexican    190                    52  142 

Norwegian 27,562            19,934  47,496 

Polish    124,543          106,803  231,346 

Roumanian    3,372              1,760  5,132 

Russian*     99,588            66,546  166,134 

Scotch    10.647              7,015  17,662 

Serbian 629                 216  845 

Spanish 323                 148  471 

Swedish     66,287            52.246  118,533 

Swiss    2.320              1,677  3,997 

Welsh    1,155                 734  1,889 

Other  Countries 3,897              1,338  5.235 

Total    806,668  876.288          754.570  2,437,526 

*  Does  not  include  Polish  who  preferred  to  be  registered  as 
Polish  rather  than  Austrian,  German,  or  Russian. 

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Introduction 


Many  persons  ask,  What  is  Chicago  doing 
for  the  physical  and  mental  well  are  ol  its  sons 
and  daughters  who  have  come  from  so  many 
lands?  Are  these  problems  being  dealt  with  in 
the  same  comprehensive  way  that  Chicago  dealt 
with  and  is  dealing  with  the  commercial  side  of 
its  life?  Is  such  opportunity  being  aftorded  for 
the  upbuilding  of  health,  character,  and  intelli- 
gence as  will  make  Chicago's  sons  and  daughters 
worthy  of  being  citizens  of  their  city,  their  state, 
and  their  country?  It  has  seemed  worth  while 
to  the  editor  and  the  authors  of  the  several  chap- 
ters of  this  volume  to  set  forth  a  brief  descrip- 
tion of  Chicago's  activity  in  the  line  of  human 
welfare  work. 


XVI 


ART  IN  CHICAGO 


Human  Welfare  Work  in 
Chicago 


Chapter  I 
ART    IN    CHICAGO 

T>  Y  personal  effort  and  through  liberality  in 
furnishing  funds,  the  people  of  Chicago 
have  taken  effective  action  which  has  resulted 
in  most  substantial  results  in  promoting  educa- 
tion in  art.  The  work  has  been  carried  on  with 
the  Art  Institute  as  a  center,  but  its  promotion 
has  been  enhanced  by  other  enterprises,  both 
public  and  private. 

The  Art  Institute  of  Chicago:  The  In- 
stitute was  incorporated  May  24,  1879,  for 
the  "founding  and  maintenance  of  schools  of 
art  and  design,  the  formation  and  exhibition 
of  collections  of  objects  of  art,  and  the  cul- 
tivation and  extension  of  the  arts  of  design  by 
any  appropriate  means."  The  musemn  building 
upon  the  lake  front,  first  occupied  in  1893,  is 
open  to  the  public  every  week  day  from  nine  to 
six,  and  Sundays  from  twelve-fifteen  to  ten.  Ad- 
mission is  free  to  members  and  their  families  at 
all  times,  and  free  to  the  public  upon  Wednes- 
days, Saturdays,  Sundays,  and  public  holidays. 
The  membership  December  31,  1916,  was: 

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Human    Welfare    Woik    in    Chicago 

Total  l''et'S  Paid 

Annual  Altnibeis.  .  .  .    5,356        $    10   a  year 

Life  Members 2,044        $100   without   further  dues 

Governing  Members.       171        $100  on  election,  and  $25  a 
Governing  Life  Mem-  year  thereafter 

bers    B7       $400  on    promotion   from 

governing  members,  then 
without  further  dues 

All  receipts  from  governing  memberships  and 
governing  life  memberships  are  invested,  and  the 
income  expended.  The  life  membership  fees 
are  held  as  a  permanent  endowment  fund,  and 
only  the  income  expended.  In  addition,  the  per- 
manent endowment  funds  of  the  Institute,  re- 
ceived from  nearly  fifty  gifts  or  bequests, 
amoimted  to  $1,617,314.88  on  January  1,  1917. 

The  South  Park  Commissioners  are  author- 
ized by  law  to  levy  a  quarter  of  a  mill  tax  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Art  Institute,  which  tax  now 
amounts  to  about  $100,000  a  year,  to  be  used 
exclusively  for  operating  expenses.  This  sum, 
augmented  by  other  sums  from  miscellaneous 
sources,  caused  the  cash  receipts  for  the  year 
ending  December  31,  1916,  to  amount  to  $281,- 
28.5.02.  During  the  year  1916  the  receipts  from 
trust  funds  amounted  to  $.579,233.72. 

The  aim  of  the  Art  Institute  is  to  establish 
and  maintain  a  comprehensive  school  of  art  and 
an  ideal  art  museum;  to  be  an  inspiring  center 
for  liberal  education  in  the  various  fields  of  art; 

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Art     in     Chicago 

to  influence  the  intellectual  life  of  the  people,  of 
high  or  low  degree,  and  to  completely  satisfy  the 
requirements  of  being  a  luxury  for  the  rich  and 
a  necessity  for  the  poor.  Its  atmosphere  is  that 
of  good-will  and  hospitality  to  all.  Its  ideal  is 
to  be  a  source  of  inspiration  to  the  uplifting  of 
human  life. 

The  Art  Institute  is  managed  in  the  belief 
that  art  is  a  ^dtal  factor  in  human  life  and  that 
its  objects  are  to  cultivate  an  appreciation  of 
the  beautiful,  and  to  discover,  stimulate,  and  rep- 
resent the  ideal.  It  is  operated  on  the  principle 
that  art  does  not  exist  for  art's  sake  alone,  but 
that  its  principal  function  is  the  service  of  hu- 
manity and  the  furnishing  of  a  medium  for  ex- 
pressing all  that  is  deepest  and  most  sincere  in 
the  life  of  a  people. 

The  art  museum  is  not  a  mere  storehouse  for 
specimens.  It  is  a  living  institution  which  fur- 
nishes changing  exhibitions  of  contemporaneous 
art,  schools  of  instruction,  lecture  courses,  and  a 
library  for  public  use.  It  is  a  home  for  the  ar- 
tistic activities  of  the  community  and  a  promoter 
of  research  work  in  art. 

The  nucleus  of  the  present  building  was 
erected  in  1892  for  the  use  of  the  World's  Colum- 
bian Exposition  during  1893.    Since  the  close  of 

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H  u  m  a  II    AV  e  1  f  a  r  e    W  ork    in    Chicago 

the  Exposition,  the  Art  Institute  has  occupied 
the  building.  Its  museum  has  not  been  closed  for 
a  single  day  since  its  opening,  November,  1893. 
During  this  period  additions  and  improvements 
have  been  made  from  time  to  time,  among  the 
most  important  of  which  are  Fullerton  Memorial 
Hall,  Ryerson  Library,  Blackstone  Hall  with 
the  galleries  above,  a  portion  of  the  grand  cen- 
tral stairway,  twenty-five  skylighted  studios  for 
the  school,  and  an  extensive  shipping  room.  The 
Institute  has  constructed  an  addition  to  its  build- 
ing which  has  cost  about  $300,000.00,  and  will 
increase  its  exhibition  space  by  about  fifty  per 
cent. 

The  Art  Institute  operates  an  Art  School,  a 
Department  of  Museum  Instruction,  a  Depart- 
ment of  Prints,  a  Department  of  Reproduc- 
tions, and  the  Ryerson  Library.  The  statistics 
as  to  miscellaneous  work  done  in  1916  by  the  In- 
stitute are  as  follows: 

Lectures  Attendance 

Lectures  to  members  and  students..  61  20,282 

Other  lectures  and  entertainments..  159  46,322 
Lectures     and     entertainments     for 

students     28  7,614 

Orchestral  concerts  5  2,309 

Sunday  afternoon  concerts 72  35,132 

Sunday   evening  concerts 26  11,202 

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The  Akt  School:  The  School  of  the  Art 
Institute  is  doing  much  to  advance  art  educa- 
tion, both  locally  and  nationally.  The  grand 
total  attendance  in  the  several  branches  of  the 
school  during  the  calendar  year  of  1916  was 
2,762  pupils. 

The  Art  School  is  not  only  the  largest  but  it 
is  the  best  equipped  and  the  most  comprehensive 
in  America.  It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  the 
collateral  advantages  surpass  those  of  any  other 
art  school. 

The  students  spend  their  working  hours  in 
the  beautiful  museum  building,  in  which  the  per- 
manent collections  are  of  the  highest  order. 
Every  year  there  are  twenty  or  more  passing  ex- 
hibitions of  the  best  current  art. 

The  principle  upon  which  the  school  is  found- 
ed is  to  maintain  in  the  highest  efficiency  the 
practice  of  drawing  and  painting,  from  life,  from 
the  antique,  and  from  objects,  and  around  this 
practice,  to  group  the  various  departments  of 
art  education. 

The  school  is  conducted  upon  the  most  mod- 
ern methods.  The  classes  are  organized  in  gen- 
eral conformity  with  the  French  "Atelier  and 
Concours"  system.  The  endeavor  is  to  place  the 
students   in   such   an   environment — under   the 

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influence  of  the  fine  permanent  collections,  the 
frequent  passing  exhibitions,  the  numerous  lec- 
ture courses,  the  library,  with  its  wealth  of  books 
and  photographs,  the  constant  association  with 
accomplished  teachers — that,  besides  their  tech- 
nical attainments,  they  shall  in  four  or  five  years 
receive  something  corresponding  to  a  liberal 
education. 

The  following  prizes  are  awarded  at  the  close 
of  each  school  year : 

1.  The  AVilliam  Merchant  Richardson 
French  Scholarship  of  $1,000,  awarded  every 
two  years. 

2.  The  John  Quincy  Adams  Prize :  A  For- 
eign Traveling  Scholarship  of  four  hundred  and 
twenty-five  dollars,  limited  to  students  who  have 
been  resident  in  America  for  five  years  immedi- 
ately preceding  the  award,  and  who  have  not 
previously  studied  abroad. 

3.  An  American  Traveling  Scholarship  of 
one  hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars. 

4.  Honorable  Mention  to  as  many  students 
as  are  found  worthy  thereof. 

The  School  offers  full  courses  of  instruction 
in  Academic  Drawing  and  Painting,  Sculpture, 
Decorative     Designing,     Illustration,     Normal 

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Training,   and  Architecture.     The  same   privi- 
leges are  accorded  to  all  students. 

Drawing  and  Painting:  For  convenience, 
the  school  of  drawing  and  painting  is  divided 
into  four  classes  or  sections,  as  follows : 

1.  Elementary.  Chiefly  early  charcoal 
practice  in  outline  and  general  light -and- shade 
from  antique  fragments,  together  with  practice 
from  groups  of  blocks  and  familiar  objects  ar- 
ranged for  the  study  of  composition.  The  sketch 
classes  give  all  students  the  opportunity  to  draw 
from  life  from  the  first. 

2.  Intermediate.  The  same,  more  advanced. 
The  value  of  line  shadow  in  construction.  Per- 
spective.   Still-life  in  monochrome  and  color. 

3.  Antique.  Heads  and  figures  from  casts 
in  full  light  and  shade.  Artistic  anatomy.  Mod- 
eling recommended. 

4.  Life.  Costumed  and  nude  life.  Compo- 
sition. Drawing  and  painting  for  advanced 
students. 

Sculpture:  The  Department  of  Modehng 
and  Sculpture  is  of  unusual  importance,  and  is 
under  the  enthusiastic  and  practical  guidance  of 
iNfr.  Charles  ,T.  i\riilligan.  The  students  not  only 
follow  the  usual  routine  of  academic  modeling 
of  head  and  figure,  and  the  composition  of  small 

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groups,  but  compose  and  model  draped  figures, 
set  up  their  own  armatures,  execute  large  figures, 
and  in  general  perform  the  practical  work  of  the 
studio.  They  are  thus  prepared  for  the  actual 
practice  of  their  profession. 

Department  of  Illustration  :  The  devel- 
opment of  modern  book  and  magazine  illustra- 
tion has  created  a  demand  for  competent  artists 
who  understand  not  only  pictorial  requirements, 
but  the  special  limitations  imposed  by  reproduc- 
tive processes.  This  broad  field  is  fully  covered 
by  the  instruction  given  in  the  Art  Institute.  It 
should  be  clearly  understood  that  illustration  in 
its  higher  branches  implies  the  full  attainment 
of  the  artist,  and,  added  to  this,  special  technical 
knowledge  and  training.  Illustrations  are  pic- 
tures studied  for  a  particular  use,  and  often  re- 
quired to  be  produced  with  great  speed  and 
readiness,  and  imder  difficult  conditions. 

Department  of  Decorati\t:  Designing: 
The  object  of  this  department  is  to  educate  stu- 
dents as  practical  designers,  so  that  they  may  be 
prepared  to  go  directly  from  the  school  into  pro- 
fessional work.  The  course  extends  over  a  pe- 
riod of  three  years  and  embraces  the  study  of 
the  theory  of  design,  historical  ornament,  prac- 
tice in  drawing  and  water  color,  and  exercise  in 

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ANNUAL   ARGHITEiCTURAL   EXHIBIT 

(iiven  by  the  Chicago  Architectural  Club,  Tiie  Illinois  Society  of 

Architects,    and    The   Illinois    Chapter   of   The   American 

Institute   of   Architecture. 


ART  SCHOOL  EXHIBITION 
Given  each  summer  by  the  students  of  their  own  work. 


Till-:  r.o.MAX  sciiJTLUK  (;aijJ':uv 

The  Art   Institute. 


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Tlic  Alt  Institute. 


Art     in     Chicago 


original  designs  for  stained  glass,  wall-paper, 
rugs,  book  covers,  metal  work,  carved  wood, 
interior  decorations,  textiles,  and  decorative  work 
of  all  kinds. 

Department  of  Ceramic  Decoration: 
The  instruction  in  design  which  is  required  in- 
cludes the  study  of  organic  ornament,  geometric 
and  conventionalized,  the  distribution  of  areas, 
the  effect  of  repetition  and  contrast,  the  artistic 
use  of  colors,  etc.  The  instruction  in  ceramics 
covers  processes  and  materials,  including  the 
practical  application  of  designs  to  ceramics,  the 
use  of  tools  and  appliances,  the  properties  of 
paints,  bronzes,  lusters,  and  gold,  the  method  of 
firing,  etc. 

The  Chicago  School  of  Architecture: 
The  School  of  Arcliitecture  is  the  result  of  an 
alliance  between  the  Ai-mour  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology and  the  Art  Institute  of  Cliicago  in  the 
course  of  Architecture.  The  draughting  rooms, 
library,  etc.,  are  located  in  the  Art  Institute. 
The  students,  however,  are  registered  and  gradu- 
ated from  the  Armour  Institute  of  Technol- 
ogy, which  offers  courses  in  all  engineering 
subjects. 

Exhibitions:  During  the  year  1916  there 
were  held  about  forty-two  individual  or  special 

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individual  exhibitions,  including  paintings,  sculp- 
ture, and  etchings. 

The  regular  annual  exhibitions  were  of  un- 
usual interest.  The  exliibition  of  the  Artists  of 
Chicago  and  vicinity  was  of  exceptional  interest, 
and  showed  marked  progress.  In  the  spring  of 
1916,  the  twenty-eighth  annual  architectural  ex- 
hibition was  enlivened  and  enlarged  by  the  coop- 
eration of  the  Illinois  Society  of  Architects,  the 
Illinois  Chapter  of  the  American  Institute  of 
Architects,  and  the  Art  Institute,  with  the  Chi- 
cago Architectural  Club,  which  in  the  past  has 
managed  those  exhibitions.  The  annual  water- 
color  exhibition  was  supplemented  by  a  fine  room 
of  paintings  from  the  Philadelphia  Water  Color 
Society.  The  summer  loan  exhibitions  were  ex- 
cellent. The  fifteenth  annual  exhibition  of  Ap- 
plied Arts  was  probably  the  most  attractively 
installed  and,  in  general,  the  best  exhibition  of 
art  crafts  ever  held  in  the  Museum.  The  annual 
exhibition  which  is  always  vitally  interesting  to 
American  artists,  that  of  American  oil  paintings 
and  sculpture,  was  opened  in  November,  1916, 
with  a  reception  to  about  four  thousand  guests. 
An  exceptionally  interesting  and  varied  lot  of 
works  ])y  almost  all  of  the  distinguished  Ameri- 
can painters  and  sculptors  was  shown,  and  by 

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unanimous  conniient  the  exhibition  was  pro- 
nounced a  decided  advance  over  all  previous  ones. 

Affiliated  Clubs:  The  Antiquarian  So- 
ciety of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago  is  an 
organization  of  ladies,  with  a  present  member- 
ship of  about  four  hundred  and  fifty,  whose 
object  is  to  purchase  and  present  to  our  museum 
antiquities  pertaining  to  the  decorative  arts. 
Since  1891  this  organization  has  contributed  an 
exceptionally  valuable  collection  of  laces,  tex- 
tiles, furniture,  etc.,  w^hich  has  been  installed  in 
permanent  galleries  in  the  museum. 

The  Commission  for  the  Encouragement  of 
Local  Art,  established  by  the  City  of  Chicago 
in  1914,  was  the  first  of  its  kind  in  America, 
although  other  cities  have  since  followed  the  ex- 
ample of  ours.  The  Commission  holds  all  of  its 
meetings  at  the  Art  Institute.  The  City  makes 
it  an  annual  appropriation  which  is  sufficient  to 
purchase  twenty  or  twentj'^-five  paintings  by  art- 
ists of  Chicago,  for  exhibition  in  schools  and 
other  public  buildings  in  our  city,  most  of  which 
purchases  are  made  from  the  Chicago  Artists' 
Exhibition. 

The  Chicago  Society  of  Artists  has  a  mem- 
bersliip  of  about  one  hundred  and  fifty  of  our 
leading  artists.    They  meet  one  evening  a  month 

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at  the  Art  Institute,  and  help  our  museum  mate- 
rially in  giving  one  of  its  best  annual  exhibitions, 
that  of  works  by  artists  of  Chicago  and  vicinity. 
The  society  has  proved  itself  an  exceptionally 
live  organization  and  a  big  factor  in  the  encour- 
agement of  local  artists. 

There  are  three  architectural  clubs  meeting 
at  the  Art  Institute :  The  Chicago  Ai'chitectural 
Club,  the  Illinois  Society  of  Architects,  and  the 
Illinois  Chapter  of  the  American  Institute  of 
Architects.  These  three  clubs  together  with  the 
Art  Institute  unite  in  giving  the  annual  architec- 
tural exhibition,  which  now  embraces  all  arts  al- 
lied with  architecture,  and  has  come  to  be  a  very 
interesting  exhibition. 

The  other  organizations  giving  annual  exhi- 
bitions at  our  museum  are:  The  Chicago  So- 
ciety of  Etchers,  the  Art  Students'  League,  the 
Chicago  and  the  Atlan  Ceramic  Art  associa- 
tions, the  Chicago  Society  of  Miniature  Painters, 
and  the  Western  Society  of  Sculptors.  The  Mu- 
nicipal Art  League  holds  all  its  meetings  at  the 
Art  Institute.  The  Art  Committee  of  the  Mu- 
nicipal Art  League  is  composed  of  delegates 
from  the  Art  committees  of  sixty-eight  impor- 
tant clubs  in  the  city.    A  large  part  of  their  work 

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is  in  connection  with  the  Chicago  Artists'  Exhi- 
bition. They  arrange  each  year  for  a  series  of 
one  or  two  receptions  a  day  that  are  held  in  the 
galleries  dui'ing  the  period  of  this  exliibition.  In 
addition  to  their  other  actiiaties,  they  make 
an  annual  purchase  of  one  or  more  pictures 
with  wliich  they  are  forming  a  Municipal  Art 
Gallery. 

The  Scammon  Lectures:  By  the  bequest 
of  Mrs.  Maria  Sheldon  Scammon,  who  died  in 
1901,  a  foundation  was  provided  for  an  impor- 
tant course  of  lectures  under  the  following  pro- 
visions. The  income  of  the  fund  is  to  be  used 
by  the  Trustees  of  the  Art  Institute  in  providing 
courses  of  lectures  upon  the  history,  theory,  and 
practice  of  the  fine  arts  (meaning  thereby  the 
gi'aphic  and  plastic  arts),  and  at  the  discretion 
of  the  Trustees  in  the  publication  of  said  lec- 
tures, such  lectures  to  be  primarily  for  the  ben- 
efit of  the  students  of  the  Art  Institute,  and 
secondarily  for  members  and  other  persons.  In 
selecting  lecturers  preference  is  to  be  given  to 
persons  of  distinction  or  authority  on  the  subject 
on  which  they  lecture.  The  fund  is  to  be  called 
"The  Maria  Sheldon  Scammon  Endowment," 
and  the  lectui-es  to  be  known  as  the  "The  Scam- 
mon Lectures." 


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Museum  Instruction:  The  Department 
of  Museum  Instruction  has  shown  appreciable 
growth  and  excellent  results.  Classes  for  adults, 
who  comprise  most  of  the  regular  attendants, 
meet  weekly.  The  work  with  the  school  chil- 
dren is  really  in  its  infancy,  but  steps  are  being 
taken  to  develop  it.  The  Municipal  Art  League, 
the  Public  School  Art  Society,  the  Art  Depart- 
ment of  the  Board  of  Education,  and  various 
other  organizations  are  cooperating  with  the  Art 
Institute  to  bring  the  children  into  closer  touch 
with  it.  Classes  have  been  organized  for  Sun- 
day evenings,  and  these  are  well  attended. 

The  number  of  those  applying  for  museum 
instruction  is  constantly  increasing.  During  the 
year  1916,  11,528  persons  were  instructed.  This 
includes  members  of  the  classes  and  the  casual 
visitors  who  ask  for  museum  guidance.  Three 
thousand  five  hundred  school  children  visited  the 
Art  Institute  in  gi'oups  and  received  instruction. 
Sixty  lectures  have  been  given  to  thirty-nine 
different  clubs. 

Library  :  The  Ryerson  Library  is  one  of  the 
greatest  sources  of  usefidness  of  the  Art  Insti- 
tute to  the  public  and  to  students.  It  is  pri- 
marily an  art  library  and  includes,  besides  its 
10,390  books,  large  collections  of  photographs 

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THK    ANTIQUARIAN    ROOM 
The   Art   Institute. 


THE  RYERSON  LIBRARY 
The  Art  Institute. 


OUTDOOR  SKETGILLNG  CJ^SS 
Tlie  Art  Institute. 


INDOOR  SKETCHING  CLASS 
Tlie  Art  Institute. 


Art     ill     Chicago 


and  lantern  slides  wliich  are  of  great  value  to  stu- 
dent and  lectui'er.  The  lantern  slides  are  kept  in 
active  circulation,  being  lent  to  lecturers  and  art 
teachers  in  all  parts  of  the  United  States.  Dur- 
ing 1916  the  collection  of  books  was  increased 
by  1,107.  The  attendance  numbered  78,334. 
This  growth  of  the  library  means  added  privi- 
leges to  all  who  use  it.  Special  mention  should 
be  made  of  the  large  amount  of  reference  work 
done  by  members  of  the  library  staff.  Not  only 
is  such  work  done  for  visitors,  but  many  demands 
for  bibliographies  by  letter  and  telephone  have 
been  met. 

The  Burnham  Library  of  Architecture,  in- 
stalled in  the  Ryerson  Library,  now  contains 
1,990  vokmies,  76  books  ha\ang  been  added  dur- 
ing the  year. 

Contents  of  Galleries  and  Museum  :  The 
Museum  and  Galleries  contain  many  casts  of 
Egyptian,  Oriental,  Greek,  Roman,  Italian, 
modern  French,  German,  Scandinavian,  British, 
and  Russian  sculpture.  There  are  numerous 
works  in  marble  and  bronze,  and  reproductions 
in  plaster,  of  American  sculpture. 

The  Blackstone  collection  of  architectural 
casts  in  sculpture  includes  295  of  the  various 
nations  of  the  earth.    In  paintings,  there  are  52 

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of  the  Old  Masters,  supplemented  by  a  few 
copies.  In  modern  oil  paintings,  there  are  41 
French  and  German  in  the  Field  collection,  38 
in  the  A.  A.  Hunger  collection,  64  in  the  Nicker- 
son  collection,  60  of  American,  36  of  British  and 
Continental  Furope. 

The  Nickerson  collection  of  water  colors  and 
pastels  numbers  43.  The  Society  of  the  Friends 
of  American  Art  have  collected  71  American 
paintings.  The  Buttler  collection  of  paintings 
by  Inness  numbers  20.  The  drawings,  prints, 
and  metal  works  number  about  858. 

This  large  collection  is  supplemented  by 
specimens  of  Oriental  applied  art ;  of  Egyptian, 
Greek,  Roman,  and  antiquties;  of  ceramics  of 
various  collections  by  the   Antiquarian   Society. 

The  Friends  of  American  Art  is  a  society 
now  in  the  sixth  year  of  its  organization.  Since 
its  foundation  it  has  added  to  the  collections  of 
the  Art  Institute  71  paintings,  6  pieces  of  sculp- 
ture, and  about  36  etchings  and  hthographs. 

VisiTOES :  The  galleries  of  the  Institute  have 
been  open  to  visitors  every  day  of  the  year  1916, 
of  which  194  were  pay  days,  and  172  were  free 
days.  During  1916,  there  were  43,344  paid  ad- 
missions, 811,411  free  public  admissions,  and 
67,553  admitted  free  on  membership  tickets. 

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The  convenient  central  location  of  the  Art 
Institute  in  the  second  largest  city  of  the  coun- 
try is  undoubtedly  the  reason  for  its  attendance 
being  greater  than  that  of  any  other  museum  in 
the  United  States.  There  are  a  number  of  art 
museums  within  a  night's  ride  of  Chicago,  which 
own  good  museum  buildings,  but  whose  collec- 
tions are  not  sufficient  to  fill  them.  There  are 
also  a  number  of  museums  occupying  temporary 
quarters.  These  museums  apply  to  the  Art  In- 
stitute from  time  to  time  for  special  exhibitions. 
They  are  able  to  pay  the  cost  of  transportation 
and  installation,  and  simply  wish  the  Art  Insti- 
tute to  obtain  the  exhibitions  and  circulate  them. 
There  is  also  a  great  demand  for  lecturers. 
There  are  over  a  hundred  Parent-Teachers  Asso- 
ciations in  Chicago  that  are  now  appealing  to  the 
Art  Institute  for  a  lecturer  to  tell  them  about 
the  Art  Institute,  and  the  teachers  and  pupils  in 
the  public  schools  are  desirous  of  knowing  more 
about  the  Museum  and  of  getting  into  closer  re- 
lations with  it.  The  drawing  teachers  in  the  Chi- 
cago public  schools  are  now  receiving  museum 
instruction  and  are  making  it  a  part  of  their 
work  to  inform  teachers  and  pupils  alike  of  the 
great  advantages  offered  them  by  the  Art  Insti- 
tute.   The  faculty  of  the  Normal  School  is  also 

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arranging  for  museum  instruction.  The  oppor- 
tmiities  for  greater  usefuhiess  were  never  so  ap- 
parent as  at  the  present  time. 

Endowments  :  The  Trustees  of  the  Art  In- 
stitute are  also  the  Trustees  to  expend  the  in- 
come of  the  B.  F.  Ferguson  Monument  Fund. 
The  fund  amounts  to  $1,099,120.14,  the  income 
of  which,  after  deducting  taxes,  cost  of  adminis- 
tration of  the  will,  and  annuities,  amounting  to 
$8,800,  is  paid  quarterly  by  the  trustees  to  the 
Art  Institute  of  Chicago  for  the  "erection  and 
maintenance  of  enduring  statuary  and  monu- 
ments in  the  whole  or  in  part  of  stone,  granite, 
or  bronze,  in  the  parks,  along  the  boulevards,  or 
in  other  public  places  within  the  City  of  Chicago, 
Illinois,  commemorating  worthy  men  or  women 
of  America  or  important  events  in  American 
history." 

The  Art  Institute  is  trustee  also  of  the  Wirt 
D.  Walker  Trust  Fund,  which  consists  of — 

Real  Estate,  Valued,  less  Incumbrance,  at.  .  .  .$531,936.72 

Bonds  of  the  Par  Value  of 106,000.00 

Cash  on  Deposit  in  the  Trust  Funds  Account.        7,042.43 


Total  Value  of  Fund $644,979.15 

In  closing  up  the  affairs  of  the  World's  Co- 
lumbian Exposition,  its  Board  of  Directors  had 

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a  balance  in  the  treasury  of  about  $48,000. 
Wishing  to  create  a  suitable  memorial  of  the 
great  exposition  held  in  Chicago  in  1893,  this 
siun  was  turned  over  to  the  Trustees  of  the  Art 
Institute  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  in  Jackson 
Park,  on  the  site  of  the  Administration  Building 
of  the  Exposition,  a  bronze  replica  of  the  "Statue 
of  the  Republic." 

Chicago  homes  are  noteworthy  for  collections 
of  paintings.  Among  them,  one  of  the  most  ex- 
quisite contains  the  following: 

1.  The  Bathers,   by   Corot. 

2.  Landscape,  by  M.  Hobbema. 

3.  Landscape,  by  Richard  Wilson. 

4.  La  Gardienne  du  Troupeau,  by  J.  T.  Millet. 

5.  Landscape,  by  Jules  Dupr6, 

6.  Bordighera,  by  Claude  Monet. 

7.  Landscape,  by  Constable. 

8.  Landscape,  by  N.  Diaz. 

9.  Lady  Frances  Russell,  by  G.  Romney. 

10.  Portrait  of  W.  W.  Kimball,  by  Arthur  Ferrares. 

11.  Dutch  Fishing  Boats,  by  J.  M.  W.  Turner. 

12.  Descent  from  the  Pyrenees,  by  Van  Morke. 

13.  Countess  of  Bristol,  by  Thomas  Gainsborough. 

14.  Portrait  of  Rembrandt's  Father,  by  Rembrandt  Van  Ryn. 

15.  Mrs.  Wolf,  by  Sir  Thomas  Laurence. 

16.  Lady  Sarah  Bunbary,  by  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds. 

17.  Poppy  Field,  by  Claude  Monet. 

18.  Water  Lilies,  by  Claude  Monet. 

19.  LeGros  Peuplier,  by  Alfred  Sisley. 

20.  One  each  by  C.  Pissaro,  Despagnol,  Maufra. 


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Private  enterprise  in  art  in  Chicago  is 
evinced  not  only  by  the  great  number  of  student 
workers  and  artists  and  by  the  great  army  of 
visitors  to  the  Art  Institute,  but  by  the  growing 
inclination  of  those  possessed  of  valuable  art 
treasures  and  art  collections  to  present  them  to 
public  institutions,  where  they  can  be  enjoyed  by 
the  mass  of  the  people.  Practically  all  of  the  col- 
lections of  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago  have 
come  to  it  by  gift  from  citizens  who  believe  that 
the  people  of  the  city  in  which  they  have  ac- 
cumulated their  wealth  should  enjoy  the  better- 
ment, advancement,  and  beauty  to  be  found  in 
art. 

Among  the  forces  at  work  to  promote  edu- 
cation in  art  in  Chicago  is  the  Chicago  Public 
School  Art  Society,  which  was  organized  in  1894, 
and  incorporated  in  1911.  It  has  a  sustaining 
membership  of  about  30,  an  annual  membership 
of  about  165,  and  a  life  membership  of  about  38. 
Its  objects  are  the  education  and  development 
of  children  in  the  public  schools  of  Chicago  in 
art,  and  the  placing  of  w^orks  of  art  in  and  about 
these  schools.  It  aims  to  help  effect  a  combina- 
tion of  scientific  and  humanistic  education. 

During  the  year  1913  the  society  made  a 
careful  study  of  the  needs  of  schools  and  types 

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of  pictures  that  are  proving  of  greatest  value. 
In  that  year  49  new  pictures  were  placed  in 
schools,  and  in  the  following  year  65  new  pic- 
tures were  placed  in  fifteen  schools.  During  the 
past  year  there  were  about  50  new  pictures  placed 
in  fourteen  schools. 

The  society  extends  its  aid  to  promote  artistic 
surroundings  in  and  about  the  public  schools.  It 
helps  groups  of  school  children  to  be  taken  to 
the  art  museum  for  observation  and  instruction. 

Its  activities  are  many  and  diversified  in 
bringing  art  objects  close  to  the  homes,  and  thus 
give  to  art  its  effect  in  the  development  of  Ameri- 
can civilization  by  cultivating  the  imagination 
and  quickening  the  conscience  through  the  prin- 
ciples of  artistic  beauty. 


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CHICAGO  AS  A  MUSIC   CENTER 


Chapter  II 

CHICAGO  AS  A  MUSIC  CENTER 

/^  HICAGO  has  become  one  of  the  focal 
^^  points  in  the  musical  activities  of  this  land 
and  the  natural  center  to  which  the  people  of  the 
Mississippi  Valley  turn  for  educational  advan- 
tages. The  growth  of  Chicago  has  been  so  rapid, 
and  the  commercial  enterprise  of  the  city  has 
been  so  extraordinary,  that  in  the  minds  of  most 
people  the  name  of  Chicago  is  synonymous  with 
business  and  they  do  not  realize  the  extent  and 
importance  of  our  musical  equipment. 

In  order  to  get  the  attention  of  the  average 
American  it  is  necessary  to  talk  in  terms  he  can 
understand,  which  means  that  he  must  be  im- 
pressed with  the  financial  importance  of  any  ac- 
tivity before  he  will  give  it  serious  consideration. 
With  this  in  view  several  independent  investiga- 
tions have  been  made  of  the  musical  profession 
to  ascertain  the  facts,  and  it  was  demonstrated 
that  the  people  of  this  community  spend  each 
year  for  their  music  something  more  than  $30,- 
000,000.  These  figures  leave  out  of  account  a 
number  of  items  concerning  which  it  was  impossi- 
ble to  obtain  accurate  information;  but,  as  the 
matter  stands,  it  was  proved  that  the  importance 

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of  the  varied  musical  activities  of  this  city  were 
such  as  to  entitle  music  to  most  respectful  con- 
sideration. 

It  is  unfortimate  that  we  Americans  have  to 
think  of  art  in  terms  of  money,  but  the  fact 
obtains,  and  the  musicians  are  ready  to  have  this 
supreme  test  applied  to  the  value  of  their  work 
to  the  community. 

The  desire  for  education  in  music  has  been 
one  of  the  most  remarkable  phenomena  of  the 
past  generation,  especially  in  the  smaller  com- 
munities all  through  the  Middle  West  and  across 
the  continent  to  the  Pacific  Ocean.  As  farmers 
and  tradesmen  prospered,  their  first  wish  was  to 
give  to  their  children  a  higher  standard  of  in- 
tellectual life  than  had  been  possible  for  them  to 
reach  for  themselves.  This  almost  universal 
spirit  has  found  expression  in  the  growth  of  edu- 
cational institutions  of  every  kind.  Music  has 
felt  this  quickening  impulse  from  the  ver\'^  first. 

Those  who  had  growing  children  with  an  in- 
herent instinct  for  music  began  to  study  the 
question  of  where  they  should  be  sent,  in  order 
that  their  natural  gifts  might  receive  the  best 
training.  A  couple  of  generations  ago  there  was 
no  doubt  about  the  matter,  for  the  talented  young 
students  must  be  sent  to  New  York  or  Boston; 

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but  during  the  past  thirty  years  there  has  arisen 
a  new  center  of  musical  activity  which  has  drawn 
to  itself  a  great  and  constantly  increasing  num- 
ber of  these  ardent  young  people — the  City  of 
Chicago. 

How  is  Chicago  equipped  to  give  to  music 
students  all  the  different  opportunities  which 
their  varied  needs  and  desires  properly  require? 
It  has  established  music  with  a  standard  of  artis- 
tic excellence  and  upon  a  scale  commensurate 
with  the  size  and  importance  of  the  city.  It  has 
its  own  orchestra,  its  own  opera  company,  and 
choral  societies  without  number;  every  artist  of 
any  distinction  visits  the  city,  so  that  the  oppor- 
tunities for  hearing  the  best  of  music  are  limit- 
less. It  has  the  two  largest  music  schools  in  the 
land,  with  countless  smaller  schools  and  an  army 
of  private  teachers;  containing  within  these 
ranks  many  artists  and  teachers  of  internation- 
al reputation.  Its  great  libraries  have  been 
equipped  with  music  departments  especially  de- 
signed to  aid  all  students  in  their  studies. 

The  Chicago  Symphony  Orchestra, 
founded  by  Theodore  Thomas  twenty-five  years 
ago,  has  maintained  its  position  as  one  of  the 
great  orchestras  of  the  world.  It  has  been  estab- 
lished on  so  solid  a  basis  that  it  has  become  one 

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of  the  facts  of  the  life  of  this  city.  It  owns  its 
home,  Orchestra  Hail,  has  an  endowment  fund, 
and  is  a  permanent  institution.  Diu-ing  the  reg- 
ular season  it  gives  two  concerts  each  week,  on 
Friday  afternoon  and  Saturday  evening.  The 
seats  in  the  gallery,  holding  about  five  hundred 
people,  are  sold  each  week  at  the  price  of  twenty- 
five  cents,  making  it  possible  for  the  students  to 
hear  the  masterpieces  of  orchestral  music  played 
by  this  great  organization  for  a  fee  so  small  as  to 
be  within  the  reach  of  all.  For  several  years  it 
has  maintained  a  series  of  popular  concerts  on 
Thm-sday  evening  of  each  alternate  week  at  a 
scale  of  prices  from  fifty  cents  down  to  fifteen. 
This  brings  the  finest  orchestral  music  within  the 
reach  of  the  most  modest  pocketbook. 

There  are  many  other  series  of  orchestral  con- 
certs, at  the  Art  Institute,  at  Sinai  Temple,  and 
at  the  Chicago  Hebrew  Institute,  for  which  the 
admission  fee  is  only  ten  cents. 

The  other  great  orchestras  of  the  country, 
from  Boston,  New  York,  Cincinnati,  Minneapo- 
lis, and  other  cities,  make  periodical  visits  to  Chi- 
cago during  the  season. 

The  Chicago  Grand  Opera  Company  was 
established  some  years  ago,  with  a  season  of  ten 
weeks  of  grand  opera  at  the  Auditorimn  Theater 

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Chicago     as     a     Music     Center 

each  year.  The  greatest  singers  of  the  world 
have  given  performances  of  the  Iiighest  artistic 
standard. 

The  scale  of  prices  is  liigh,  as  is  inevitable, 
but  provision  has  been  made  for  the  student  so 
that  by  buying  a  subscription  ticket  to  one  per- 
formance each  week  the  seats  in  the  second  gal- 
lery cost  but  fifty  cents  for  each  performance. 
On  Saturday  evenings  popular  performances 
have  been  given  at  half  the  regular  prices.  The 
repertoire  has  ranged  through  the  masterpieces 
of  the  opera  of  all  lands,  especially  Italy,  Ger- 
many, and  France.  Special  attention  has  been 
given  to  the  works  of  American  composers  and 
to  the  interests  of  American  singers. 

From  time  to  time  other  opera  companies 
have  visited  the  city,  and  far-reaching  plans  have 
been  formed  by  the  men  who  have  made  opera 
possible  in  Chicago. 

As  for  the  individual  artists  who  have  ap- 
peared in  the  city,  the  number  is  too  great  to 
mention.  It  only  needs  be  said  that  every  artist 
of  distinction  who  comes  to  America  is  sure  to 
make  several  \nsits  to  Chicago,  and  it  is  merely 
necessary  to  watch  the  announcements  in  the 
daily  press  to  keep  informed  as  to  the  facts.  The 
recitals  by  singers,  pianist,  violinists,  and  'cellists. 

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aiul  tlie  concerts  of  chamber  music  and  by 
choral  societies  are  so  many  that  the  only  limit 
to  indulgence  is  the  length  of  the  individual  pock- 
etbook. 

Choral  Societies:  These  are  numerous. 
The  Apollo  Club  is  the  oldest  and  the  most 
widely  known  through  its  great  oratorio  produc- 
tions. Other  societies  number  into  the  hundreds. 
One  most  interesting  movement  during  recent 
years  has  been  the  establishment  of  singing  socie- 
ties among  the  employees  of  many  of  the  great 
mercantile  establisliments,  primaril}^  for  the  musi- 
cal and  social  benefits  to  be  derived  by  the  work- 
ers who  are  so  closely  confined  during  the  day. 
Some  of  these  societies  have  developed  such  a 
degree  of  artistic  excellence  that  their  concerts 
have  now  become  a  part  of  the  regular  musical 
activities  of  the  city,  and  are  open  to  the  pub- 
lic. It  has  been  the  experience  of  all  the  organ- 
izations which  have  fostered  this  enterprise 
among  their  employees  that  the  rehearsal  hour 
has  been  one  of  the  most  stimulating  incentives 
to  study  and  self-development  that  has  yet  been 
discovered. 

For  the  teaching  of  music  Chicago  is 
equipped  in  the  most  ample  manner  to  provide 
for  the  needs  of  the  earnest  student  in  every 

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department,  from  the  musical  kindergarten  to 
the  artist  ready  for  the  concert  platform  or  the 
operatic  stage.  The  number  of  students  who 
come  here  each  year  cannot  be  accurately  esti- 
mated, but  the  matter  has  been  well  enough 
canvassed  to  show  that  the  number  is  among  the 
thousands,  and  from  every  state  from  the  Alle- 
ghenies  to  the  Pacific.  As  a  result,  teachers  have 
been  stimulated  to  intense  efforts  to  provide  all 
that  is  best  in  methods  of  instruction,  and  to  keep 
abreast  of  advanced  modern  thought. 

Conservatories  of  Music  :  The  two  princi- 
pal are  the  American  Conservatory  and  the  Chi- 
cago Musical  College,  both  of  which  institutions 
have  been  established  for  years  and  each  season 
number  their  pupils  by  the  thousands.  There  are 
also  the  Columbia  School  of  Music,  the  Chicago 
Conservatory,  the  Bush  Temple  Conservatory, 
and  many  others.  A  number  of  famous  artists 
prefer  to  teach  in  private  studios.  The  number 
of  people  actively  engaged  in  the  teaching  of 
music  is  estimated  at  considerably  more  than  five 
thousand. 

It  is  because  of  this  excellent  equipment  for 
the  teaching  of  music  in  all  its  branches  that 
Chicago  has  become  the  teaching  center  of  the 
West,  and  the  constantly  growing  knowledge  of 

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this  fact  is  bringing  into  the  city  talented  young 
musicians  who  are  studying  to  make  nuisic  a  pro- 
fession. While  the  city  has  not  yet  been  aided 
in  this  educational  work  by  great  endowed  in- 
stitutions, nevertheless  the  schools  and  private 
teachers  offer  to  all  promising  students  many 
kinds  of  practical  assistance  to  enable  them  to 
pursue  their  studies.  There  are  many  free  ad- 
vantages for  the  benefit  of  deserving  students, 
and  this  movement  is  being  given  more  and 
more  attention  by  clubs  and  societies. 

Tjie  Civic  Music  Association,  working  in 
conjunction  with  the  commissioners  of  the  park 
systems,  has  organized  many  kinds  of  musical 
activities  and  has  arranged  for  concerts  by  well- 
known  artists.  It  has  established  choral  societies 
and  orchestras  among  the  talented  of  the  various 
neighborhoods.  People  are  learning  that  educa- 
tion means  something  more  than  training  young 
people  for  a  trade,  and  are  taking  thought  to 
provide  those  things  which  minister  to  man's  as- 
piration toward  the  higher  things  of  the  spirit. 
This  movement  for  giving  practical  instruction 
in  music  and  the  incentive,  not  only  to  hear 
music  but  also  to  take  an  active  part  in  making 
it,  is  growing  stronger  all  the  time.  Chicago  is 
doing  its  full  share  in  this  admirable  work. 

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Chicago     as     a      M  u  s  i  c     C  e  n  t  e  i" 

The  Civic  JNIiisic  Association  was  organized 
and  chartered  to  promote  and  encourage  the 
understanding,  appreciation,  and  study  of  the 
art  of  music  and  the  development  of  musical 
talent  throughout  the  community,  principally  by 
providing  musical  entertainment  and  instruction 
gratuitously  or  at  little  expense  in  the  small 
parks  and  playgrounds  and  other  civic  centers. 

Local  groups  or  centers  have  been  organized 
in  many  of  the  fieldhouses  of  the  smaller  parks, 
as  well  as  social  centers  in  the  public  schools. 

The  first  Spring  Festival,  held  in  May,  1915, 
brought  together  many  groups  from  diiFerent 
civic  centers,  and  aroused  enthusiasm.  It  illus- 
trated what  can  be  done  in  the  future  to  accom- 
plish one  of  the  originally  stated  objects  of  the 
Association.  It  was  held  at  the  Harrison  High 
School,  and  furnished  practical  evidence  that  the 
Civic  Music  Association  has  justified  itself  by 
its  work.  The  first  choral  number  was  given 
by  the  children's  choruses  from  Seward  Park, 
Dvorak  Park,  Mark  White  Square,  and  Armour 
Square.  There  were  about  250  children  en- 
gaged, ranging  from  a  few  years  of  age  up  to 
about  fourteen.  They  sang  eleven  folk  songs, 
from  memory.  They  had  learned  their  music 
well  and  gave  it  with  a  spirit  that  is  always 

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appealing.  They  sang  true  to  pitch,  and,  when 
the  song  had  a  good  rhythm,  they  rendered  it 
with  a  swing  that  stirred  everyone.  Two  of  the 
songs,  the  Russian  and  the  Bohemian,  were  re- 
peated in  encores.  The  audience  was  delighted, 
and  well  it  might  have  been.  This  work  that 
the  Civic  INIusic  Association  has  done  with  the 
children  would  of  itself  be  more  than  worth  all 
the  eifort  and  money  that  has  been  expended. 

In  less  than  a  year,  the  Association  had  justi- 
fied its  existence  as  an  agency  to  promote  the 
love  of  good  music  and  to  gratify  the  taste  of 
multitudes  who  would  have  little  opportunity 
otherwise  for  this  kind  of  enjoyment.  Its  great- 
est service  is  in  bringing  together,  under  super- 
vision, young  people,  who  until  they  were  so 
started,  had  no  means  of  such  diversion  and 
education. 

The  larger  plans  of  the  Association  include 
the  organization  of  local  committees  to  co- 
operate in  arranging  and  managing  musical  en- 
tertainments in  each  Center;  the  organization  of 
neighborhood  choral  and  orchestral  clubs  at  each 
Center;  the  giving  of  lecture  recitals;  the  provid- 
ing of  opportunities  for  young  artists  to  make 
their  initial  appearances;  the  rendering  of 
works  of  resident  composers;  the  production  of 

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distinctly  American  music;  and  the  holding  of 
annual  music  festivals  by  combining  the  local 
groups. 

Music  Libraries:  The  Chicago  Public 
Library  has  established  a  music  department  in 
which  there  are  not  only  books  on  music  which 
the  student  wishes  to  consult,  but  the  actual 
music  itself.  Operas,  oratorios,  orchestral  and 
chamber  music,  the  literature  of  the  piano,  violin, 
and  voice  are  lent  to  students  on  practically  the 
same  plan  as  the  other  books  of  the  institution. 
The  department  was  organized  for  the  benefit  of 
the  general  public,  and  every  effort  is  made  to 
open  it  to  the  widest  practical  use. 

In  the  Newberry  Library  there  is  a  most 
valuable  musical  collection  intended  for  research 
work  and  study  for  advanced  musicians.  There 
are  rare  scores,  including  a  large  part  of  the 
orchestral  library  of  Theodore  Thomas,  the 
founder  of  the  Chicago  Symphony  Orchestra, 
and  every  provision  is  made  for  the  convenience 
of  readers. 

Band  Concerts:  During  the  summer  there 
are  out-of-door  concerts  by  many  bands  in  the 
city  parks.  In  the  winter  season  a  system  of 
public  concerts  is  being  organized  in  the  park 
fieldhouses,  and  in  the  assembly  halls  of  some 

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of  the  schools.  The  Chicago  Band  has  been 
established  and  is  maintained  throughout  the 
year  by  public-spirited  citizens  for  the  express 
purpose  of  giving  concerts  in  out-of-the-way 
localities  where  the  people  cannot  conveniently 
reach  the  center  of  the  city  and  cannot  afford 
to  provide  music  for  themselves. 

Apart  from  the  cultural  value  of  music  in 
a  general  scheme  of  education,  people  are  recog- 
nizing through  actual  experience  the  tremendous 
demand  that  has  grown  up  all  over  the  country 
for  well-equipped  teachers  of  music.  A  con- 
stantly increasing  proportion  of  serious  young 
men  and  women  are  adopting  music  as  a  profes- 
sion because  the  study  interests  them  and  be- 
cause they  have  discovered  that  it  offers  them 
a  wide  field  for  practical  work.  In  the  old  days 
it  was  held  that  no  one  ought  to  waste  his  time 
in  the  study  of  music  unless  he  showed  such  re- 
markable talent  as  to  warrant  him  in  expecting 
to  make  a  career  as  a  virtuoso;  but  during  the 
past  generation  the  demand  for  instruction  in 
music  has  become  so  great  that  it  has  opened  a 
new  profession  to  the  young  people  of  this  coun- 
try— one  pleasant  in  itself  and  in  which  the 
pecuniary  rewards  are  highly  satisfactory. 

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More  and  more  people  in  general  are  learn- 
ing to  look  upon  music  as  one  of  the  arts  about 
which  a  well-informed  man  ought  to  know  some- 
thing. We  do  not  make  our  children  study 
Shakespeare  because  we  expect  them  to  learn 
from  these  pages  how  to  become  poets,  nor  have 
them  read  the  masterpieces  of  fiction  because  we 
expect  them  to  become  novelists.  We  have  in- 
sisted on  the  study  of  the  works  of  the  master 
minds  of  literature  in  order  that  our  children 
might  gain  a  wider  knowledge  of  life,  and  feel 
a  deeper  sympathy  in  the  struggles,  the  sorrows, 
and  the  joys  of  this  world  of  which  they  form 
a  part.  We  are  learning  to  realize  that  they 
should  study  the  masterpieces  of  music  for  the 
same  reason,  and  in  order  that  they  may  enter 
into  this  realm  of  beauty  with  intelligent  appre- 
ciation. Some  of  the  greatest  men  to  whom  the 
world  has  given  birth  have  expressed  themselves 
through  music,  and  it  is  dawning  upon  men  that 
to  be  well-informed  they  should  understand 
something  of  this  art;  not  because  they  expect, 
or  desire,  to  become  professional  musicians,  but 
because  they  wish  to  have  their  share  in  the  won- 
ders of  the  realm  of  the  Spirit. 

This  feeling  has  been  working  in  the  mass 
of  the  people  of  this  community  and  they  have 

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prepared  themselves  in  an  extraordinary  way 
to  give  it  practical  expression.  There  remains 
much  to  be  done,  but  within  the  space  of  less 
than  two  generations  Chicago  has  provided  an 
equipment  in  music  which  has  made  this  city 
one  of  the  great  music  centers  of  America. 


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THE  CITY'S  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS 


Chapter  III 

THE  CITY'S  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS 

T^  HE  public  school  system  of  Chicago  com- 
prises one  of  the  largest  organizations  in 
point  of  magnitude  and  capital  west  of  the  city 
of  New  York.  There  are  approximately  three 
hundred  schools,  representing  the  various  dis- 
tricts into  which  the  city  has  been  divided.  The 
tangible  assets  of  the  public  school  system,  rep- 
resented by  buildings,  grounds,  and  eqviipment, 
approximate  $60,000,000.  The  annual  outlay 
in  realty,  including  permanent  construction  and 
repairs,  together  with  new  sites  and  additions, 
represents  $6,000,000.  The  current  expense 
incident  to  the  maintenance  and  management 
of  the  schools  approaches  the  vast  sum  of 
$14,000,000. 

There  are  engaged  in  the  work  of  instruc- 
tion nearly  8,000  teachers,  and  there  are  in  at- 
tendance at  the  schools,  ranging  from  the  kinder- 
garten through  the  high  schools,  almost  325,000 
pupils.  Of  these  large  numbers,  by  far  the 
greater  proportion  are  provided  for  by  the  regu- 
lar course  of  study.  There  are,  however,  in  nu- 
merous instances,  groups  of  children  who,  owing 
to    physical    or    mental    abnormalities,    require 

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other  means  of  instruction  than  that  which  is 
provided  in  the  regular  curriculum.  In  order 
to  meet  these  varied  needs,  numerous  supple- 
mentary departments  have  been  created,  such  as 
special  schools  for  the  crippled,  the  deaf,  the 
blind,  the  subnormal,  the  motor  type  children, 
the  delinquents,  the  truants,  the  epileptics,  and 
the  children  of  a  low  standard  of  physical  vital- 
ity. It  has  been  the  policy  of  the  Board  of 
Education  to  make  special  provision  for  children 
who  are  handicapped  through  physical  or  men- 
tal abnormalities,  and  to  pro\'ide  for  them  every 
opportunity  possible  in  the  way  of  equipment 
and  special  instruction. 

For  the  instruction  and  management  of  this 
large  army  of  students,  teachers  well  trained  and 
prepared  are  necessary.  The  Chicago  Normal 
College  has  been  created  for  this  purpose,  and 
is  being  maintained  at  a  large  expense  to  sup- 
ply the  necessary  additions  to  the  corps  of  teach- 
ers of  the  great  educational  system.  At  the 
present  time  there  are  eight  hundred  prospective 
teachers  who  are  receiving  instruction  prepara- 
tory to  qualification  to  become  instructors  under 
the  management  of  the  Board  of  Education. 

To  keep  pace  with  the  rapidly  expanding  sys- 
tem,  and  to  provide  building  accommodations 

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for  the  rapidly  growing  school  population,  has 
been  one  of  the  difficult  problems  confronting 
the  Board  of  Education.  To  provide  for  emer- 
gency needs  in  the  congested  districts  and  in 
the  more  remote  parts  of  the  city,  areas  at  which 
permanent  structitres  could  not  consistently  be 
provided,  the  public  school  system  has  con- 
structed nearly  three  hundred  portable  build- 
ings. These  structures,  in  the  main,  are  well 
lighted,  heated,  and  ventilated,  and  form  an  im- 
portant adjunct  to  the  general  plan  for  housing 
the  children  during  the  period  that  they  are  at- 
tending school. 

In  addition  to  the  work  of  the  regular  school 
day,  a  large  system  of  evening  schools  is  main- 
tained during  five  months  of  the  colder  portion 
of  the  year.  These  schools  are  liberally  patron- 
ized and  so  organized  that  credit  toward  gradu- 
ation is  given  for  work  that  has  been  successfully 
accomplished  in  these  classes.  There  are  at  pres- 
ent nearly  tliirty-five  school  buildings  that  have 
been  opened  as  community  centers  for  the  benefit 
of  the  social  life  of  the  neighborhood.  This 
feature  of  public  school  extension  has  constantly 
been  growing  in  favor,  and  increased  appropria- 
tions have  been  made  from  year  to  year  for  the 
enlargement  of  the  work. 

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Included  in  the  general  organization  are  the 
high  schools,  twenty-two  in  number,  which  are 
growing  rapidly  in  membership  and  attendance. 
Of  these,  the  technical  high  schools  constitute  an 
important  factor.  In  these  schools  young  men 
and  young  women  are  prepared  for  work  of  re- 
sponsible positions,  and  the  graduates  readily 
find  their  way  into  places  requiring  responsi- 
bility and  efficiency. 

The  finest  technical  schools  in  our  country  are 
locating  in  Chicago.  The  demand  for  this  kind 
of  training  as  a  means  of  preparation  for  life 
is  so  urgent  that  it  has  been  impossible,  without 
great  inconvenience  to  both  teachers  and  pupils, 
to  provide  necessary  quarters  and  equipment. 
The  Lane  Technical  High  School  on  the  North 
Side,  the  Crane  and  Harrison  Technical  High 
schools  on  the  West  Side,  and  the  Tilden  and 
Lucy  L.  Flower  Technical  High  schools  on  the 
South  Side,  are  the  main  centers  for  the  assem- 
bling of  young  people  who  desire  to  avail  them- 
selves of  the  opportunities  of  this  kind  of 
education.  The  Lucy  I^.  Flower  Technical  High 
School  has  been  established  for  the  training  of 
girls  who  desire  to  make  preparation  for  the 
trades  and  the  professions,  as  well  as  for  posi- 
tions with  relation  to  household  economy. 

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The     City's     Public     Schools 

The  management  of  the  schools  is  under  the 
direction  of  the  Board  of  Education,  consisting 
of  twenty-one  members,  who  are  appointed  by 
the  Mayor  of  the  City.  The  term  of  office  is 
three  years,  and  the  appointments  are  made  in 
groups  of  seven,  in  July  of  each  year.  The 
powers  of  organization  are  inherent  in  the  Board, 
which  elects  each  year  a  President  and  Vice- 
President,  the  President  in  turn  making  his  ap- 
pointments of  standing  committees,  which  are 
as  follows: 

School  Management  Adjustments 

Buildings  and  Grounds  Community  Centers 

Finance  Health  and  Sanitation 

Rules  Sites 

Leases  Audit 

Numerous  subcommittees  are  appointed  by 
the  Chairmen  of  the  above  committees,  to  take 
charge  of  special  features  of  educational  man- 
agement. The  general  organization  is  divided 
into  three  distinct  parts,  known  as  the  Educa- 
tional Division,  the  Business  Division,  and  the 
Division  of  Audit.  Under  the  direction  of  the 
heads  of  these  divisions,  various  departments 
have  been  created.  The  business  of  the  Board 
is  conducted  largely  through  the  committees, 
which  in  turn  report  all  of  their  proceedings. 

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Human    Welfare    Work    in    Chicago 

findings,  and  recommendations  to  the  Board 
of  Education  at  its  regular  meetings,  which 
are  held  on  alternate  Wednesdays  of  the  School 
year. 

In  the  membership  of  the  Board  of  Educa- 
tion are  found  many  prominent  persons  who 
have  achieved  success  in  business  and  profes- 
sional life,  and  whose  counsels  have  been  helpful 
in  the  forming  of  diif erent  policies  for  the  man- 
agement of  the  educational  interests  of  the  city. 
The  members  of  the  Board  are  acting  coopera- 
tively, consistently,  and  unselfishly  for  the  con- 
servation of  the  interests  of  the  children  of  our 
city,  and  in  the  raising  of  the  standards  of  effi- 
ciency in  the  departments  of  instruction. 

In  an  aggregate  population  of  two  and  one- 
half  million  of  such  cosmopolitan  characteristics 
as  we  find  in  Chicago,  the  problem  of  education 
is  one  of  infinite  interest  and  continuous  study. 
The  shifting  of  the  population,  with  its  varied 
racial  traditions  and  propensities,  renders  it  dif- 
ficult to  forecast  accurately  future  needs  of  any 
particular  district  in  the  city's  area.  The  Board 
has  provided  for  the  construction  of  buildings 
in  certain  portions  of  the  city  which  seemed  ade- 
quate in  point  of  capacity  for  all  future  demands, 
only  to  find  an  overflow  in  attendance  before 

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The     City's     Public     Schools 

it  was  possible  to  bring  the  structure  to  the  point 
of  completion. 

It  has  been  the  policy  of  the  Board,  in  the 
securing  of  sites,  to  go  out  in  advance  of  settle- 
ment and  purchase,  wherever  possible,  in  acre 
tracts,  before  subdivisions  have  been  made. 
Through  this  policy  much  of  the  public  revenue 
for  education  has  been  conserved  and  made  avail- 
able for  other  purposes. 

The  demands  for  construction  and  recon- 
struction are  incessant  and  insistent  from  every 
portion  of  the  city.  While  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation recognizes  the  necessity  and  legitimacy 
of  these  demands,  it  can  act  only  in  accordance 
with  the  annual  revenues  that  are  provided  for 
its  use. 

Vexing  problems  will  confront  the  manage- 
ment of  the  schools  for  years  to  come.  Only 
through  careful  and  thoughtful  deliberation, 
coupled  with  the  vision  which  is  able  to  forecast 
future  conditions,  with  a  breadth  of  view  that 
knows  no  preference  for  any  particular  or 
favored  section  of  the  city,  and  with  a  single 
devotion  to  the  interests  of  the  child  alone, 
shall  we  be  able  to  find  a  solution  for  school 
problems  as  they  confront  the  City  of  Chicago 
today. 

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Human    Welfare    Work    in    Chicago 

The  breadth  of  work  of  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation of  the  City  of  Chicago  requires  special 
consideration  in  order  to  be  appreciated. 

The  Department  of  Child  Study  and  Edu- 
cational Research  was  established  in  1889,  and 
makes  examination,  mental  and  physical,  of  all 
problem  cases  of  children  of  school  age  in  Chi- 
cago. It  prepares  school  programs  and  super- 
vises physical  care  of  all  special  types  of  school 
children,  including  the  deaf,  blind,  crippled,  sub- 
normal, truant,  incorrigible,  stuttering,  anemic, 
tubercular,  epileptic,  and  choreic.  It  supervises, 
in  forty-five  public  schools,  rooms  for  backward 
or  subnormal  children,  and  maintains  a  psycho- 
pathic institute  and  clinic  for  defectives. 

There  are  four  public  school  centers  for  blind 
children.  They  aim  to  give  blind  children  the 
opportunity  to  grow  up  in  a  natural  environ- 
ment. They  provide  such  training  as  will  enable 
their  pupils  to  mingle  later  in  the  business  and 
social  world  as  nearly  as  possible  like  normal 
members  of  society.  Carfare  for  the  blind  and 
their  attendants  is  defrayed  by  the  Board  of 
Education.  Each  center  is  furnished  with  Braille 
equipment. 

There  are  two  public  schools  for  crippled 
children.     They  are  admitted  upon  a  physical 

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THE    CARTER   H.    HARRISOX    TECHNICAL    HIGH    SCHOOL 


THE  ASSKMI'.I.Y  HALL 
The   Carter    H.    Harrison    Tcelinieal    Hieh    School. 


The     City's     Public     Schools 


examination  by  a  civil  service  school  ph^^sician, 
and  upon  mental  tests  by  the  Child  Study  De- 
partment. Transportation  is  supplied  by  the 
Board  of  Education  by  operating  nine  busses, 
each  of  which  is  attended  by  a  policeman  who 
helps  in  the  care  of  the  children.  Instruction  in 
manual  training,  and  in  domestic  work,  is  pro- 
vided in  addition  to  the  regular  academic  work. 
A  nurse  is  provided  in  each  school,  for  two  hours 
a  daj^  to  give  medical  attention,  furnishing  the 
necessary  surgical  dressings  and  medicines.  Each 
school  has  a  rest  room  containing  three  beds, 
for  pupils  requiring  rest  during  the  day.  Lunch- 
eon is  provided  each  day,  food  and  service  being 
paid  for  by  the  Board  of  Education. 

There  are  three  public  school  centers  for  deaf 
children,  which  were  organized  in  1875.  The 
Board  of  Education  pays  carfare  for  all  pupils 
living  at  a  distance,  and  in  some  cases  a  small 
sum  for  an  attendant.  The  aim  of  these  centers 
is  to  educate  deaf  cliildren  for  self-support.  The 
centers  are  caring  for  about  260  deaf  pupils. 

In  1914  a  center  was  established  to  take  care 
of  an  estimated  number  of  about  500  epileptic 
children  of  school  age  in  Chicago.  The  enrol- 
ment thus  far  is  small,  as  transportation  funds 
are  not  j^et  provided.     It  is  hoped  to  transfer 

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such  defectives  to  a  state  institution  as  soon  as 
one  is  provided. 

A  special  fund  is  appropriated  by  the  Board 
of  Education  to  pay  for  janitor  service,  lighting, 
heating,  and  other  expenses  incurred  in  connec- 
tion with  the  opening  of  the  public  schools  for 
the  use  of  community  social  centers,  of  which 
there  are  about  forty. 

Vacation  schools  are  conducted  four  days 
each  week  for  the  summer  term  of  six  weeks. 
Pupils  are  received  only  on  recommendation  of 
the  principal  of  the  school  which  the  applicant 
attends.  Outdoor  schools  for  anaemic  children 
are  operated  in  connection  with  the  Chicago 
Woman's  Club  and  the  Elizabeth  INIcCormick 
Memorial  Fund.  Medical  advisers  are  provided 
by  the  Chicago  Tuberculosis  Institute.  Nutri- 
tious diet,  recreation,  occupations,  and  baths  are 
furnished. 

There  are  sixteen  industrial  and  pre-voca- 
tional  schools  conducted  on  an  industrial  plan, 
in  addition  to  the  pre-vocational  course  at  the 
Lane  Technical  High,  the  Crane  Technical 
High,  the  Flower  Technical  High,  and  the  I^ake 
High  schools.  There  is  a  special  bureau  of  Voca- 
tional Guidance  vmder  the  Board  of  Education. 

Open-air   schools   are  operated   for   anemic 

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The     City's     Public     Schools 


children  and  those  predisposed  to  tuberculosis. 
This  work  is  carried  on  especially  with  the  Eliza- 
beth McCormick  INIemorial  Fund  and  the  Chi- 
cago Tuberculosis  Institute. 

In  this  connection  should  be  mentioned  the 
Municipal  Tuberculosis  Sanitarium,  established 
in  1915  b}^  the  City  of  Chicago.  It  has  an  ulti- 
mate capacity  of  950  beds,  and  is  free  to  the  resi- 
dents of  Chicago. 

In  the  public  schools  there  are  separate 
open-air  rooms  and  low-temperature  open-win- 
dow rooms. 

The  Board  of  Education  supplies  room  and 
equipment,  and  pays  the  wages  of  cooks  and 
attendants,  for  operating  penny  lunch  rooms 
in  a  number  of  its  schools. 

In  1903  the  Board  established  an  office  for 
age  and  school  certificates.  This  offi.ce  issues  per- 
mits, i.  e.,  labor  certificates,  to  pupils  of  the  Chi- 
cago Public  Schools,  and  to  new  residents,  be- 
tween the  ages  of  14  and  16,  who  wish  to  engage 
in  gainful  occupations. 

In  Chicago  nearly  all  the  schools,  whether 
elementary  or  high,  have  their  own  domestic- 
science  equipment,  and  systematically  develop 
domestic  art  and  science.  Art  is  made  an  organic 
part  of  education  in  Chicago  by  practical  work 

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Hum  an    Welfare    Work    in     Chicago 

in  manufacturing  articles,  followed  by  instruc- 
tion in  designing. 

In  some  of  the  high  schools  of  Chicago  the 
position  of  Dean  of  Women  has  been  created, 
to  supply  the  kind  of  supervision  and  counsel 
which  girls  in  colleges  receive.  The  public  school 
system  extends  to  habitual  truants  through  its 
connection  with  the  Detention  Home  for  of- 
fenders, the  Parental  School,  and  the  use  of  spe- 
cial school  rooms. 

Development  of  several  years  has  given  Chi- 
cago public  school  buildings  of  distinct  types. 
They  are  so  built  that  the  windows  of  the  class 
rooms  face  east  and  west,  avoiding  north  and 
south  exposures.  The  buildings  are  simple  and 
substantial,  but  pleasing  in  architecture,  without 
expensive  ornamentation.  The  end  sought  is  to 
give  a  well-lighted  building  for  practical  school 
purposes. 

In  building  the  grade  schools  there  are  several 
designs  from  which  choice  is  made,  according  to 
the  size  of  the  lot  on  which  the  school  is  to  be 
erected.  Most  of  the  buildings  contain  32  rooms, 
but  many  have  only  from  16  to  22  rooms  each. 
Each  such  edifice  costs  about  15  cents  a  cubic 
foot.  A  32-room  school  costs  about  $300,000, 
when  constructed  under  normal  conditions. 

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The     City's     Public     Schools 

High  schools  are  constructed  along  similar 
lines,  and  are  very  costly,  owing  to  the  demands 
of  the  public  for  different  courses,  requiring  the 
equipment  of  laboratories,  shops,  etc.  They  are 
also  furnished  with  swimming  pools  and  with 
gymnasiums  for  both  boys  and  girls.  These,  to- 
gether with  lunch  rooms,  libraries,  etc.,  bring  the 
cost  of  high-school  buildings  and  establishments 
to  from  $1,000,000  to  $1,250,000  each.  The  cost 
of  maintenance  is  proportionately  high  in  this 
type  of  building,  owing  to  these  special  needs  in 
construction. 

Both  grade  and  high  schools  are  equipped 
with  auditoriums  sufficiently  large  to  take  care 
of  all  the  pupils  in  one  gathering.  Many  of  the 
high-school  auditoriums  have  a  seating  capacity 
of  2,500,  and  those  of  the  grade  schools  from 
1,000  to  1,600. 

Playgrounds  are  being  established  adjacent 
to  schools  throughout  the  city.  In  locating  new 
schools  in  the  outlying  districts,  large  areas  are 
purchased  for  playgrounds  and  other  future 
needs.  It  is  very  expensive  to  add  playgroimds 
in  the  old  and  congested  centers  of  the  city, 
where  it  necessitates  the  removal  of  buildings. 
Playgrounds  in  those  districts  are  luxuries,  but 
as   they   are    much    more    needed    than    in   the 

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outlying  territory,  large  sums  of  money  are  being 
spent  to  supply  the  much-needed  relief. 

It  is  safe  prophecy  that  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation will  open  more  public  schools  and  will 
make  a  larger  appropriation  for  encouraging  the 
establishing  of  community  centers  in  the  future. 
The  experiment  thus  far  has  been  encouraging, 
and  in  some  specific  instances  a  brilliant  success. 

The  Board  of  Education  received  for  educa- 
tional purposes  in  1915  $17,871,943.04,  of 
which  there  was  still  in  the  city  treasury'-  at  the 
close  of  the  school  year  $67,411.21. 

Instruction  in  the  elementary  day  schools 
cost  $8,417,211.42,  and  in  the  secondary  day 
schools  $2,063,753.64.  Operation  of  the  elemen- 
tary day  schools  cost  $1,389,443.37  and  of  the 
secondary  schools  $240,977.01. 

The  evening  schools  cost  $201,339.98  for 
instruction  and  $41,488.41  for  operation.  Vaca- 
tion schools  cost  $4,618.26  for  instruction  and 
$3,482.25  for  operation. 

The  Board  spent  $2,726,798.48  on  new 
buildings,  and  $1,061,893.73  for  new  sites.  Per- 
manent improvements  amounted  to  $273,668.03, 
and  general  repairs  and  upkeep  $464,466.60. 


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THE    PUBLIC    LIBRARY 


Chapter  IV 

THE    PUBLIC    LIBRARY 

*  '  W^E  are  a  city  of  nearly  350,000  people, 
and  are  absolutely  without  a  public 
library  worthy  of  the  name,"  dolefully  observed 
an  editorial  writer  in  a  Chicago  paper  Septem- 
ber 10,  1871 ;  and  he  added,  "Not  only  is  there 
no  library  in  this  city  where  a  scholar  could  go 
to  settle  any  abstruse  question  in  literature,  in 
art,  or  science,  or  where  an  educated  man,  de- 
voted to  reading  and  study,  could  find  books  to 
satisfy  his  reasonable  wishes,  but  there  is  none 
where  one  who  desired  to  acquire  a  good  educa- 
tion could  find  the  means." 

A  month  later  Chicago  was  fire-swept,  and 
out  of  the  ashes,  in  unexpected  form,  grew  its 
Public  Library.  Keenly  sympathetic  with  the 
people  of  the  stricken  city,  Thomas  Hughes, 
the  author  of  Tom  Brown's  School  Days,  and 
others  associated  with  him,  started  a  movement 
in  England  with  an  appeal  to  authors,  publishers, 
scientific  societies,  and  literary  institutions,  and 
this  resulted  in  the  donation  of  several  thousand 
volumes.  When  the  books  arrived  in  Chicago 
in  1872,  each  volume  bearing  a  book-plate  in- 
scription of  presentation  to  the  City  of  Chicago 

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H  u  ni  a  M    ^y  e  1  f  a  r  e    AV  o  r  k    in    Chicago 

toward  the  formation  of  a  free  library,  the  col- 
lection was  stored  in  the  "Tank,"  part  of  the 
temporary  city  hall  building  known  as  the 
"Kookery,"  at  Adams  and  La  Salle  streets. 

After  many  migrations,  the  occupancy  of  the 
present  quarters  at  the  corner  of  Washington 
Street  and  INIicliigan  Avenue,  was  realized  in 
1897.  In  the  intervening  years,  the  little  collec- 
tion which  formed  the  nucleus  has  expanded  into 
a  great  library  system,  with  nearly  900  agencies 
in  different  parts  of  the  city,  including  38  fully 
organized  general  branches,  30  branches  in  com- 
mercial and  industrial  concerns,  30  deposit  sta- 
tions, and  numerous  traveling  libraries  in  fire 
stations,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  branches,  settlements,  so- 
cial centers,  schools,  and  other  gathering  places. 
On  an  average  20,000  persons  use  the  library 
and  its  branches  daily,  and  over  5,000,000  vol- 
umes are  issued  annually  for  home  use.  The 
total  recorded  use  of  the  system  is  about  8,750,- 
000  for  for  twelve  months. 

Agencies  of  the  Library  farthest  from  the 
central  building  are  located  at  distances  of  14 
miles  south,  9  miles  north,  9  miles  west,  and  13 
miles  southwest.  The  Library  maintains  six 
automobile  delivery  trucks  in  serving  the  wants 
of  its  numerous  agencies. 

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The     Public     Library 

The  activities  of  the  Library,  broadly 
grouped,  embrace  educational,  informational, 
and  recreational  featiu'es.  Emphasis  is  placed 
on  the  first  feature,  especially  in  cooperation 
with  the  schools  and  through  local  expedients 
such  as  story  hoiu-s,  exhibits,  and  kindred  by- 
activities.  In  its  ser\ace  to  business  men,  also, 
the  Library  is  seeking  to  meet  and  to  anticipate 
needs  and  demands. 

Another  activity  of  the  Library  makes  pro- 
vision for  citizens  of  foreign  birth.  Books  in 
seventeen  different  languages  are  obtainable 
from  the  central  collection  of  the  Library,  or  by 
delivery  at  the  branches  or  stations.  At  the  main 
building,  one  section  of  the  Open  Shelf  Depart- 
ment is  given  over  to  special  collections  in 
German,  French,  Swedish,  Dano-Norwegian, 
Yiddish,  Italian,  Bohemian,  Polish,  and  Lettish. 
In  addition  there  are  in  the  Library  books  in 
the  following  languages:  Spanish,  Portuguese, 
Dutch,  Russian,  Hungarian,  Lithuanian,  Welsh, 
Japanese,  and  Chinese.  Altogether,  the  books 
in  foreign  languages,  including  special  deposit 
collections  in  some  of  the  branches,  number 
62,24L 

In  providing  reading  matter  for  the  public, 
the  Public  Library  does  not  leave  out  of  account 

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II 11  ni  a  n    AV  e  1  f  a  r  e    AV  o  r  k    i  n     C  h  i  c  a  g  o 

those  who  have  been  denied  the  blessing  of  sight. 
It  is  estimated  that  there  are  in  Chicago  between 
2,000  and  2,500  blind  persons.  For  their  enjoy- 
ment, the  Library  has  a  collection  of  1,370  vol- 
imies  in  raised  letters.  While  there  is  maintained 
in  the  north  wing  of  the  main  building  on  Michi- 
gan Avenue  and  Randolph  Street  a  reading 
room  where  applicants  are  given  accommoda- 
tions, most  of  the  blind  readers  use  the  books  in 
their  homes.  The  federal  government,  by  spe- 
cial enactment  a  few  years  ago,  exempted  from 
cost  of  postage  books  for  the  blind  sent  through 
the  mails  by  public  libraries  for  the  use  of  their 
patrons.  In  this  wa5^  the  Chicago  Public  Li- 
brarj^  sends  out  every  year  to  all  parts  of  the 
city  hundreds  of  books  having  the  raised  charac- 
ters read  by  sense  of  touch  instead  of  sight. 

Interesting  special  features  in  the  Central 
Library,  in  addition  to  the  books  for  the  blind, 
include  an  Arts  and  Crafts  Room,  with  an  un- 
usually fine  collection  of  material  on  industrial 
design  and  ornaments;  a  music  room,  compris- 
ing operas,  oratorios,  symphonies,  instrumental 
scores,  and  sheet  music,  loaned  to  patrons  with 
the  same  liberality  as  books;  a  Civics  Room  con- 
taining many  thousands  of  pamphlets,  magazine 
separates,  and  newspaper  clippings  on  the  sub- 
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THE  READING  R0O:\I 
The  Chicago  Public  Library. 


THE  CTRCULATIOiN  DEPART.MI:NT 
The  Chicago  Public  Libraiy. 


HlJ]\IBOLDT   PARK   13Ri\NCH 
The  Chioatro  I*nblic  Library. 


SHERMAN  PARK  ]]R.\NCn 
The  Chicago  Piihlio  Library. 


The     Public     Library 

jects  of  sociology,  economics,  municipal  affairs, 
and  education;  an  Open  Shelf  Department;  a 
Young  People's  Room,  with  a  loan  collection  of 
mounted  photographs  and  pictures ;  and  a  Study 
Room  for  Women. 

In  its  work  with  the  people,  the  Librarj^  aims 
to  crj'^stallize  the  sentiments  inscribed  upon  its 
walls,  credited  to  the  master  thinkers  of  the 
world : 

"Men  are  equal;  it  is  not  birth,  hut  worth  that  makes 
the  difference." 

"Books  are  the  legacy  that  a  great  genius  leaves  to 
mankind,  which  are  delivered  down  from  generation  to 
generation  as  presents  to  the  posterity  of  those  who  are  yet 
unborn." 

"The  world  is  founded  on  thoughts  and  ideas." 

The  Board  of  Directors  has  continued  in  its 
endeavors  to  extend  library  facilities  to  all  the 
people  of  Chicago,  not  only  through  its  system 
of  branch  libraries,  various  deposit  collections, 
traveling  libraries,  and  delivery  stations,  but  also 
by  making  the  collection  of  books  in  the  main 
library  more  accessible  to  the  patrons  of  the 
library. 

Under  existing  laws  the  total  annual  revenue 
drawn  by  taxation  for  use  of  the  Library  is  about 
$600,000.  Trust  funds  amounting  to  $278,000 
in  1916  are  invested  in  high-grade  bonds. 

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1 1  u  in  a  n     AV  e  1  f  are    AV  o  r  k    in     Chicago 

There  are  38  branches  now  maintained  by  the 
Library.  Of  these  18  are  in  strictly  residence 
districts,  and  they  show  an  average  annual  cir- 
culation of  o3,342  each.  Of  the  others,  four  are 
in  buildings  owned  by  the  Library,  and  they  have 
an  average  annual  circulation  of  88,942  each, 
while  seven  branches  in  rented  quarters  on  busi- 
ness streets  show  an  average  annual  circulation 
of  115,270  each. 

The  number  of  books  in  the  Library  on  Jan- 
uary 1,  1917,  was  729,763. 

The  following  is  the  statistical  summary  of 
the  use  of  the  Library  for  the  year  ending  May 
31,  1916: 

Home  circulation,  including  schools,  5,014,745;  a  gain  of 
897,419  over  the  previous  year. 

Daily  average  circulation,  16,666. 

School  circulation,  296,776. 

Number  of  branches,  38 ;  delivery  stations,  77 ;  deposit  sta- 
tions, 29;  business  home  deposits,  21;  special  deposits,  32;  school 
deposits,  748 ;   total  number  of  agencies,  944. 

Books  issued  in  Reference  Room,  exclusive  of  open-shelf 
volumes  450,593, 

Books  issued  in  Art  Room,  51,294. 

Volumes  consulted  lu  Civics  and  Tateuts  rooms :  Docu- 
ments, 23,883;  magazines,  25,497;  bound  newspapers,  7,499;  books 
for  blind,  286;  directories,  31,772;  pamphlets,  193,09.5;  books, 
14,574;   patents,   72,180. 

Numlwr  of  employees  in  all  departments  May  31,  1916,  402; 
total  pay-roll,  $295,248. 

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The     Public     Library 

Number  of  registered  card  holders,  190,044;  locally  regis- 
tered in  dejMJsit  stations,  30,000;  industrial  branches,  22,000; 
schools,   38,460;   total   number   of   users,   289,504. 

The  work  of  the  Pubhc  Library  is  co- 
ordinated and  supplemented  by  certain  other 
libraries  as  follows : 

The  Newberry  Library,  situated  on  Wal- 
ton Place,  Chicago,  is  a  free  library  of  reference 
established  in  1887,  and  is  maintained  by  endow- 
ment funds  out  of  the  estate  of  Walter  Loomis 
Newberry. 

During  the  first  six  years  of  its  history  the 
Newberry  Library  was  housed  in  temporary 
quarters,  but  in  1894  it  took  possession  of  the 
beautiful  and  imposing  building  which  had  been 
erected  for  it.  The  original  plans  of  the  Trus- 
tees contemplated  the  gathering  of  a  general 
collection  of  reference  and  source  books  on  all 
subjects.  Later,  however,  a  cooperative  arrange- 
ment was  entered  into  ^vith  other  Chicago  libra- 
ries under  which  the  field  of  knowledge  was 
roughly  divided  among  them,  and  a  policy  of 
non-duplication  of  books  was  adopted.  The 
principal  fields  of  knowledge  and  branches  of 
learning  which  fall  within  the  province  of  the 
Newberry  Library  under  this  arrangement  are: 
Bibliography,      Philosoplw,      Psychology     and 

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II  u  111  a  II    W  e  1  f  a  r  e    ^V  «  r  k    i  n     C  h  i  c  a  g  o 

Ethics,  History,  Political  Science,  Geography, 
Biography,  Language,  Literature,  and  (in  part) 
the  fine  arts.  In  each  of  these  divisions  the 
Library  possesses  many  treasures,  books  of  in- 
terest and  value  for  all  time,  which  are  available 
for  use  or  inspection  by  serious  and  qualified 
students.  The  formalities  required  in  the  use 
of  the  collections  are  only  such  as  are  absolutely 
necessary  for  the  proper  care  and  administration 
of  the  books  and  the  convenience  of  the  many 
who  use  them. 

On  January  1,  1917,  the  Librarj^  contained  a 
grand  total  of  365,054  volumes,  pamphlets, 
manuscripts,  maps,  and  other  forms  of  literary 
material. 

The  liquid  assets  of  the  Library  amounted 
on  December  31,  1916,  to  $397,811.19.  In  1916 
the  Library  was  open  308  days,  and  the  total 
visits  by  the  public  nimibered  63,189.  The  ex- 
penditure for  books,  periodicals,  and  fittings  of 
the  Library  from  its  foundation  to  date  amount 
to  $805,282.12. 

The  John  Crerar  Library  was  incorpo- 
rated in  October,  1894,  in  pursuance  of  an  en- 
dowment by  the  donor  whose  name  it  bears,  as 
a  free  public  library  of  scientific  and  technical 
literature,  in  the  field  of  natural,  physical,  and 

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THE  GENERAL  READING   ROOM 
The  Jolin  Cicrai'  l^ihnirv. 


THE  MEDICAL  READING  ROOISI 
The  John  Crerar  Library. 


The    Public    I^  i  b  r  a  r  y 

social  sciences  and  their  applications.  The  total 
endowment  now  amounts  to  over  $3,500,000. 
The  collection  contains  about  383,000  volumes, 
12,000  maps  and  plates,  and  130,000  pamphlets. 

The  resources  of  the  Library  have  been  in- 
creased by  two  other  gifts,  the  Jackson  and 
Gradle  funds. 

The  Crerar  Library  is  continually  growing 
by  special  purchases  and  by  other  acquisitions, 
though  it  now  covers  its  field  in  a  most  complete 
manner.  Its  permanent  home  will  be  on  the  cor- 
ner of  Randolph  Street  and  JNIicliigan  Avenue. 

The  Chicago  Historical  Society  has  spe- 
cial arrangements  to  instruct  children  in  the 
eighth  grade  of  the  public  schools  in  Chicago  in 
history. 

The  library  of  the  Chicago  School  of  Civics 
and  Philanthropy  is  open  to  the  public.  The 
same  privilege  is  to  a  limited  extent  granted  by 
the  Hamilton  Library  of  the  Chicago  Theologi- 
cal Seminary;  by  the  library  of  the  University 
of  Chicago ;  by  the  library  of  the  Western  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  and  by  the  law  library  of  the 
Northwestern  University  Law  School. 


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PARKS    AND    BOULEVARDS 


Chapter  V 

PARKS  AND  BOULEVARDS 

/^  HICAGO,  with  its  elaborate  system  of 
^^  parks  and  connecting  boulevards,  occupies 
a  distinctive  status  among  American  cities  in  this 
regard.  It  may  justly  be  called  the  "Garden 
City." 

The  city  is  about  twenty- four  miles  long  and 
ten  miles  wide,  and  is  divided  into  three  natural 
geographical  divisions  by  the  Chicago  River  and 
its  branches,  namely,  North,  West,  and  South 
sides. 

Forty-six  years  ago  three  park  boards  were 
incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  state.  These 
boards  are  known  as  the  West  Chicago  Park 
Commissioners,  the  Lincoln  Park  Commissioners, 
and  the  South  Park  Commissioners.  The  com- 
missioners have  the  right  to  levy  taxes,  subject 
to  certain  limitations,  on  the  equalized  assessed 
valuation  of  the  property  witliin  their  respective 
districts,  for  the  purpose  of  establishing,  improv- 
ing, and  maintaining  parks,  fieldhouses,  play- 
grounds, and  boulevards. 

The  commissioners  of  Lincoln  and  West 
Parks  are  appointed  by  the  Governor  of  the 
state,  while  the  South  Park  Commissioners  are 

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H  u  111  a  n     ^V  e  I  f  a  re     Work    in     Cli  i  c  a  g  o 

appointed  by  the  Circuit  Court  Judges  of  Cook 
County.  The  administration  of  the  affairs  of 
the  South  Park  Commissioners  has  always  been 
practically  free  from  political  influence. 

At  the  time  these  boards  were  incorporated, 
the  territory  under  the  control  of  the  Lincoln 
Park  Commissioners  covered  what  was  then 
nearly  all  of  that  part  of  the  city  known  as  the 
North  Side.  The  \Vest  Chicago  Park  Commis- 
sioners controlled  the  West  Side  and  the  South 
Park  Commissioners  the  South  Side. 

The  city  limits  have  been  extended  from  time 
to  time,  but  the  park  districts,  respectively  under 
control  of  these  three  boards,  have  practically 
remained  the  same.  One  of  the  results  is  that 
there  is  now  quite  an  extent  of  territory  within 
the  city  limits  not  included  in  these  park  dis- 
tricts, nor  directly  benefited  by  them. 

In  certain  portions  of  this  territory  small 
park  districts  have  been  established  by  local  park 
boards,  until  there  are  now  ten  such  within  the 
city.  There  is  also  the  Special  Park  Commis- 
sion, under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  City  of  Chi- 
cago, which  operates  small  parks,  playgrounds, 
and  bathing  beaches.  This  makes  in  all  fourteen 
park  boards  in  the  city — a  rather  unfortunate 
and  complicated  condition  of  affairs. 

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THE  SOUTH  END  OF  WOODED  ISLAND 
Jax:ksoii  Park. 


THE  LILY  POND 
Douglas  Park. 


THE  FORMAT.  GAItDEX 
Garfield  Park. 


Parks     a  11  (1     B  o  ii  1  e  v  a  r  d  s 


No  other  city  in  America  excels,  and  few  if 
any  equal,  Chicago  in  the  matter  of  parks,  boule- 
vards, and  playgrounds. 

The  following  statement  gives  the  material 
facts : 


No.  of 
Parks 


Name 

South    Park    Commissioners... 

Lincoln  Park  Commissioners.. 

West  Cliicago  Park  Commis- 
sioners           11 

Special   Park   Comniisslon 100 

North  Shore  Park  Commissioners       1 

Ridge   Avenue   Park    District.  .  .  . 

Calumet  Park  District 

Edison   Park    Commissioners.... 

Femwood    Park    Commissioners. 

Irving-  Park  Commissioners 

Northwest  Park  Commissioners. 

Old  Portage  Park  Commission- 
ers     

Ridge   Park   Commissioners 

West  Pullman  Park  Commis- 
sioners     


Miles  of     Tear 
Boule-  Organ- 
Acreage     vards        Ized 


24 

7 


2.044 
600 

808 

271 

4. 

S 

35 

2 

14 

IB 

102 

40 
10 

18 


33.0 
11. B 

29.5 

None 

3.B 

1.75 


1869 
1869 

1869 
1899 
1900 
1896 
1900 
1913 
1907 
1910 
1911 

1912 

1908 

1913 


Total 167  3,971        79.25 

From  this  statement  it  will  be  seen  that  Chi- 
cago can  boast  of  167  parks  and  playgrounds 
and  about  80  miles  of  boulevards,  connecting  all 
of  the  more  important  parks  and  many  of  the 
smaller  ones. 

All  of  the  smaller  park  boards,  and  also  the 
Special  Park  Commissioners,  operate  parks  and 

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Human    Welfare    Work    in    Cliica<ro 

playgrounds  which  are  comparatively  small, 
ranging  in  size  from  one-quarter  of  an  acre  to 
forty  acres. 

The  large  park  boards  also  operate  small 
parks  and  playgrounds,  ranging  in  size  from  5 
to  80  acres  each.  The  South  Park  Commis- 
sioners are  leaders  in  this  particular.  In  fact, 
it  is  conceded  that  no  other  park  organization  in 
the  world  operates  such  an  elaborate  system  of 
small  park  facilities. 

In  the  South  Park  system  there  are  19  small 
parks  and  5  large  parks.  The  facilities  for  rest, 
recreation,  instruction,  and  amusement  in  the 
large  parks  are  nowhere  surpassed. 

Jackson  Park,  covering  about  550  acres,  situ- 
ated along  the  shore  of  Lake  Michigan  between 
Fifty-sixth  and  Sixty-seventh  streets,  was  one 
of  the  first  parks  purchased  by  the  South  Park 
Commissioners.  It  was  the  site  of  the  World's 
Columbian  Exposition  in  1893.  Some  of  the 
buildings  of  that  famous  exhibition  are  still  being 
utilized.  The  principal  of  these  is  the  fine  arts 
building,  which  is  the  present  home  of  the  Field 
jMuseum  of  Natural  History. 

In  this  park  one  may  amuse  oneself  with 
golf,  tennis,  baseball,  football,  fishing,  bathing, 
boating,  and  skating.   These  amusements  are  all 

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THE  GOLF  GROUNDS 
Jackson  Park. 


THE  LAGCK).N 
Jackson   Park. 


THE  BATHING  BEACH 
Jackson   Park. 


Parks     and     15  o  ii  1  e  v  a  r  d  s 

absolutely  free,  with  the  exception  that  a  small 
charge  is  made  for  boats. 

With  its  mile  of  lake  shore  frontage,  its  beau- 
tiful yacht  harbor  and  spacious  lagoons,  the  pop- 
ular "wooded  island"  of  World's  Fair  fame,  the 
finest  public  golf  course  in  the  United  States, 
and  its  unexcelled  trees  and  shiaibbery,  Jackson 
Park  is  the  most  beautiful  park  in  the  city.  Only 
such  parks  as  Prospect  Park  of  Brooklyn,  Druid 
Hill  Park  of  Baltimore,  or  Fairmount  Park  of 
Philadelphia  can  be  compared  with  it.  Statis- 
tics show  that  between  fifteen  and  seventeen  mil- 
lion people  annually  visit  Jackson  Park. 

The  public  golf  links  in  Jackson  Park  are 
known  the  world  over.  There  are  a  9-hole  and  an 
18-hole  course.  The  opportunities  there  offered 
to  enjoy  this  sport  are  nowhere  surpassed.  No 
charge  whatever  is  made  for  playing.  Lockers 
to  accommodate  3,000  players,  and  shower  baths, 
with  towels  and  soap,  are  provided  free  of  cost. 
All  that  is  required  is  one's  golf  sticks  and  good 
behavior.  Between  fifty  and  sixty  per  hour  can 
be  started  in  play,  but  so  popular  is  the  course 
that  as  many  as  800  have  at  times  been  awaiting 
their  turns  to  play,  and  500  persons  have  been 
found  standing  in  line  at  daylight  on  Sunday 
morning,  waiting  to  secure  tickets  to  play  some 

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Human    Welfare    Work    in    Chicago 

time  during  the  day.  Infrequently  players  have 
remained  up  all  night  at  the  starting  tee  in  order 
to  be  sure  of  getting  an  opportunity  to  go  "once 
around"  the  following  day.  About  300,000 
players  are  started  annually  around  these 
com'ses.  The  cost  to  the  commissioners  of  oper- 
ating and  maintaining  both  courses  averages 
about  five  cents  per  player. 

Three  years  ago  the  commissioners  estab- 
lished a  bathing  beach  in  Jackson  Park  opposite 
the  German  Building.  So  popular  has  this  be- 
come that  the  establishment  of  a  permanent  and 
very  elaborate  bathing  beach  is  already  in  prog- 
ress. The  new  bathing  beach  will  cost  about 
$300,000  and  when  completed  will  be  the  finest 
fresh-water  bathing  beach  in  the  United  States. 
There  is  truth  in  the  statement  that  whatever 
the  South  Park  Commissioners  do,  they  do  well. 

Following  iSIarquette  Road — a  boulevard — 
west  for  a  distance  of  six  miles  from  Jackson 
Park,  one  reaches  JNIarquette  Park,  which  con- 
tains 320  acres.  The  nursery  for  growing  plants, 
shrubbery,  and  trees  is  located  in  this  park;  so 
also  is  an  eighteen-hole  golf  course.  This  golf 
course  is  at  present  in  a  somewhat  unfinished 
condition,  but  is  being  improved  each  year,  and 
is  used  by  a  large  number  of  players. 

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FOLK  DANCE 
Palmer  Park,  South  Park  Svstem. 


CHILlM^vEN'S   FIELD  DAY 
Palmer  Park,  South  Park  System. 


PERGOLA 
Sunken   Gardens,   Wasliington  Park. 


GAGE  PARK 
South    Park    System. 


Parks     a  n  d     B  o  u 1 e  v a  r  d s 

Extending  one  mile  west  from  Jackson  Park 
and  leading  into  ^Vashington  Park,  is  the  world- 
famous  JNlidway  Plaisance,  comprising  eighty 
acres.  Here  were  located  the  Irish  village,  the 
streets  of  Cairo,  the  Ferris  wheel,  and  other  well- 
remembered  amusements  of  the  world's  fair. 

The  "Midway"  is  noted  for  the  simplicity 
of  its  beauty.  The  depressions  or  sunken  gar- 
dens very  often  raise  the  question  as  to  why  they 
are  there.  The  answer  to  this  is  that  it  was,  and 
perhaps  is  yet,  the  intention  to  have  these  con- 
nected ^vith  Lake  INIichigan  and  filled  with  water, 
on  which  boating  of  different  kinds  would  be 
allowed.  The  beauty  of  such  an  improvement 
can  well  be  imagined.  It  is  estimated  that  this 
improvement  would  cost  about  $1,000,000,  which 
is  probably  one  reason  why  it  has  not  yet  been 
made. 

In  the  first  depression  east  of  Washington 
Park  the  Trustees  of  the  Aii;  Institute  of  Chi- 
cago propose  erecting  a  very  fine  fountain,  "The 
Fountain  of  Time."  This  will  probably  be  com- 
pleted within  the  next  four  years. 

Directly  west  of  the  "Midway"  is  Washing- 
ton Park,  containing  360  acres.  This  park  offers 
the  same  facilities  as  Jackson  Park,  with  the 
exception  of  golf,  bathing,  and  yachting.     In 

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li  lima  11    AV  el  fare    Work    in    Chicago 

addition  it  affords  opportunity  for  rocjue,  arch- 
ery, fly-casting,  and  curling. 

In  this  park  are  located  the  administration 
building  of  the  South  Park  Commissioners  and 
the  "central  plant,"  which  comprises  the  power 
plant,  pumping  station,  shops,  barns,  laundry, 
garage,  and  store  room. 

Five  years  ago  the  commissioners  made  a  con- 
tract with  the  Sanitary  District  of  Chicago  for 
the  supply  of  electric  energy.  Since  that  date 
their  own  electrical  plant  has  not  been  used  as 
a  generating  station,  but  as  a  central  electric  sub- 
station and  heating  plant.  It  is  fully  equipped 
with  modern  steam  turbines  which  can  be  put 
into  operation  on  short  notice  to  supply  the  parks 
with  light  in  the  event  of  accident  to  the  Sanitary 
District's  plant. 

The  pumping  station  supplies  all  the  water 
for  Jackson  and  Washington  parks,  the  Midway 
Plaisance,  and  Drexel  Boulevard.  It  is  equipped 
with  electrically  operated  centrifugal  pumps 
having  a  capacity  of  10,000,000  gallons  every 
twenty-four  hours.  This  water  is  brought  from 
the  lake  through  a  five-foot  concrete  tunnel  re- 
cently constructed  by  the  commissioners.  The 
combined  cost  of  this  tunnel  and  pumping 
station  was  $250,000. 

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The  park  laundry  is  located  in  the  same 
building  as  the  pumping  station  and  is  one  of 
the  most  efficiently  operated  industries  of  the 
park.  All  of  the  laundry  work  for  the  entire 
system  is  done  here.  It  includes  the  laundering 
of  towels,  bathing  suits,  janitors'  and  street 
cleaners'  suits,  matrons'  dresses,  aprons,  and 
other  articles.  This  laundry  has  great  capacity, 
having  turned  out  as  many  as  1,250,000  bath 
towels,  bathing  suits,  etc.,  in  one  month.  One 
body  ironer  alone  turns  out  4,000  towels  per 
hour. 

Industries  are  condupted  in  a  carpenter  shop, 
a  machine  shop,  a  blacksmith  shop,  a  plumber 
shop,  and  a  tinsmith  shop.  These  shops  are 
kept  busy  all  of  the  time.  They  are  engaged 
mostly  in  repair  work,  although  considerable 
new  work,  such  as  doors  and  sash  and  special 
furniture,  is  also  performed. 

The  stables  have  a  capacity  for  caring  for 
140  horses.  The  commissioners  at  one  time  kept 
about  130  horses,  but  as  automobiles  and  auto- 
trucks render  much  more  efficient  service,  the 
number  in  the  service  has  been  reduced  to  60. 
Thej^  are  nearly  all  heavy,  dark-gray  Perche- 
rons  and  add  considerable  beauty  to  the  park 
equipment. 

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The  central  plant  also  includes  the  conserva- 
tory, in  which  is  displayed  a  large  variety  of 
palms,  ferns,  and  flowering  plants.  The  com- 
missioners also  operate  their  own  hot  houses 
and  a  nursery  of  forty  acres.  In  these  hot 
houses  are  propagated  all  of  the  plants  and 
flowers  displayed  in  the  South  Park  system.  As 
many  as  100,000  trees  and  shrubs  have  been  sup- 
plied from  the  nursery  in  one  year. 

The  open  meadow  of  about  80  acres  is  a 
veritable  home  for  all  kinds  of  games  and  often 
presents  a  most  satisfactory  appearance  with  its 
thousands  of  players. 

Grant  Park,  which  is  frequently  spoken  of 
as  Chicago's  "front  yard,"  is  located  on  the  lake 
front  opposite  the  down-town  district.  It  is 
bounded  on  the  north  by  Randolph  Street,  on 
the  south  by  Peck  Court  and  on  the  west  by  that 
portion  of  INIichigan  Avenue  which  bears  the 
reputation  of  being  the  finest  mile  of  boulevard 
in  the  world. 

The  greater  part  of  this  park  is  in  an  unim- 
proved state.  Great  things  are  in  store  for  Chi- 
cago when  the  improvements  under  considera- 
tion have  been  completed,  which  include  among 
other  things  a  stadium  with  a  seating  capacity 
of  50,000  or  more.     This  park  bids  fair  to  be 

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TH K  CON SE R V ATUHY 
Washington   Park. 


BOATHOUSE  AND  LAGOON 
Garfield  Park. 


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Parks     and     Boulevards 

the  great  show  place  of  Chicago  when  it  is 
completed. 

About  three  years  ago  the  South  Park  Com- 
missioners acquired  title  to  practically  all  of  the 
riparian  rights  between  Grant  Park  and  Jack- 
son Park,  a  distance  of  about  six  miles.  It  is 
the  intention  to  fill  in  submerged  land  along  this 
distance,  thereby  creating  about  1,600  acres  of 
land  for  park  purposes.  This  will  reclaim  the 
lake  shore  for  the  people  and,  when  completed, 
will  make  for  Chicago  one  of  the  largest  and 
most  beautiful  parks  in  the  world. 

Within  the  limits  of  Grant  Park  is  located 
the  Art  Institute,  which  receives  annually  for  its 
support  about  $100,000  from  the  tax  levy  of 
the  South  Park  Commissioners. 

At  the  south  end  of  this  park  is  being  built 
the  new  Field  Museimi,  for  the  construction  and 
maintenance  of  which  about  $8,000,000  was  pro- 
vided by  the  late  Marshall  Field. 

In  addition  to  the  large  parks  mentioned, 
the  South  Park  Commissioners  operate  19  small 
parks  ranging  in  size  from  10  to  80  acres  each. 
The  parks  are  models  of  their  kind  and  their 
fame  is  widespread. 

About  two  miles  north  of  Grant  Park  and 
situated    on    the    shore    of    Lake    Michigan    is 

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Human    AV e  1  f a r e    Work    in    Chicago 

Lincoln  Park,  one  of  the  most  popular  parks 
in  the  city.  It  extends  from  North  Avenue  to 
Diversey  Parkway. 

The  Lincoln  Park  Commissioners  control  al- 
together about  4^  miles  of  lake  frontage  and 
have  within  recent  years  constructed  about  250 
acres  of  new  park  area  which  is  in  addition  to 
Lincoln  Park  proper,  thus  making  Lincoln  Park 
about  the  same  acreage  as  Jackson  Park,  namely, 
550  acres. 

This  park  is  the  chosen  site  for  various  pieces 
of  sculptors'  art,  among  which  the  statue  of  Lin- 
coln by  Augustus  St.  Gaudens,  located  at  the 
Dearborn  Street  entrance,  easily  takes  first  place. 
Others  are  Grant's  monument  on  the  lake  front, 
by  L.  T.  Rebisso ;  the  Linne  monument,  a  gift  of 
the  Swedish-born  citizens  of  Chicago,  in  the  north 
part  of  the  park;  the  Shakespeare  monument, 
a  gift  of  Samuel  Johnson;  also  a  bronze  bust  of 
Beethoven  by  Johannes  Gelert. 

The  Lincoln  Park  Commissioners  have  re- 
cently opened  a  golf  course  in  the  new  portion 
of  the  park,  so  that  now  Lincoln  Park  offers 
about  the  same  opportunities,  though  more  lim- 
ited in  extent,  for  recreation  as  does  Jackson 
Park  on  the  South  Side. 

One  of  the  great  attractions  in  Lincoln  Park 
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THE  CHICAGO  ACADEMY  OF  SCIENCES 
(Free  Natural  History  Museum)  Lincoln  Park. 


SHAKES I'EA  i;  E   STATUE 
Lincoln   Park. 


I'icturos  Ciiyrighted  l.j  l-rank  iM.  Wou'lrillT. 

JAGUAR 
BKAR  ELK  MANDRILL 

^^■()LF  AND   LI':rTER 
The  Jvincoln  Park  Zoo  is  one  ot  the  finest  in  the  world. 


Parks     and     Boulevards 

is  its  zoological  collection  consisting  of  about 
1,700  animals  and  birds,  which  is  the  only  collec- 
tion of  this  kind  in  the  city  of  Chicago.  The 
animals  are  maintained  in  sanitary  buildings 
and  quarters,  and  the  collection  is  one  of  the 
finest  in  the  Avorld.  Here  also  is  located  the 
Academy  of  Science,  in  which  may  be  seen 
upwards  of  100,000  specimens  divided  among 
the  various  exhibits. 

In  addition  to  this  park,  the  Lincoln  Park 
Commissioners  also  control  and  operate  six  other 
small  parks  or  playgrounds  and  an  extensive 
system  of  boulevards,  the  principal  of  which  are 
the  famous  Lake  Shore  Drive  and  the  Sheridan 
Road,  which  lead  through  what  is  probably  the 
finest  residential  district  in  Chicago.  Diversey 
Parkway,  running  west  from  the  north  end  of 
the  park,  connects  with  the  district  under  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  West  Chicago  Park  Com- 
missioners. 

The  rapid  disappearance  of  vacant  land  on 
the  West  Side,  formerly  available  for  play  fields, 
creates  an  imperative  demand  for  small  recrea- 
tion fields  and  parks.  With  a  view  to  furnishing 
this  relief,  the  West  Chicago  Park  Commission- 
ers are  endeavoring  to  take  care  of  the  congested 
districts  first  and  then  gradually  to  extend  the 

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Human    Welfare    \\'  o  r  k    in    Chicago 

system  until  every  section  of  the  West  Side  will 
be  within  convenient  distance  to  a  breathing- 
spot  and  playground. 

As  the  West  Side  is  a  considerable  distance 
from  the  lake,  one  of  the  great  demands  is  for 
ample  swinmiing  and  bathing  facilities,  and  with 
a  view  to  meeting  this  want,  a  new  and  beautiful 
swdmming  pool,  with  shower  rooms  and  locker 
rooms,  has  been  completed  in  Franklin  Park,  in 
addition  to  the  nine  swimming  pools  already 
established.  This  pool  contains  17,000  square 
feet  and  is  the  second  largest  in  the  city  of  Chi- 
cago. Buildings  and  s\^dmming  pool,  with  locker 
rooms,  in  Union  Park,  will  be  ready  in  1917  as 
will  a  pool,  shower  baths,  and  locker  rooms  in 
connection  with  the  boys'  baseball  grounds  at 
Rockwell  and  Congress  streets.  This  will  give 
the  people  of  the  West  side  the  benefit  of  twelve 
well-equipped  swimming  pools  and  shower  baths. 

All  available  space  in  the  parks  that  can  be 
spared  is  devoted  to  tennis,  baseball,  and  golf. 
The  three  large  parks  and  five  of  the  playground 
parks  are  equipped  with  assembly  rooms  and 
are  at  the  disposal  of  the  public  for  social  gather- 
ings, afternoons  and  evenings,  free  of  charge. 
All    the   small   parks    and    play   fields    are    so 

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Parks     and     Boulevards 

arranged  that  they  may  be  flooded  and  turned 
into  ice  fields  for  winter  sports.  In  addition, 
toboggan  slides  are  furnished  in  Douglas,  Gar- 
field, and  Himiboldt  parks. 

The  Commissioners  are  now  engaged  in  con- 
verting the  154-acre  tract  of  land  known  as 
"Austin  Park  Site"  into  a  modern  and  beauti- 
ful park.  All  of  the  small  parks  are  equipped 
with  outdoor  gymnasiums  and  children's  play- 
grounds. 

Probably  the  most  distinguishing  feature  of 
the  West  Park  System  is  the  Conservatory  in 
Garfield  Park.  It  contains  68,055  square  feet 
of  floor  space,  covered  over  bj^  140,740  square 
feet  of  glass.  The  cubical  contents  of  the  entire 
structure  is  1,927,400  cubic  feet.  The  entrance 
to  the  conservatory  is  dignified  by  two  beautiful 
groups,  "Idyl"  and  "Pastoral."  The  Palm 
House,  which  is  the  largest  room,  is  65  feet  high 
in  the  center.  It  contains  every  known  variety 
of  palm  from  southern  Europe,  and  South  and 
Central  America. 

West  of  the  Palm  House,  which  takes  in 
the  entire  central  part  of  the  conservatory,  are 
the  exhibition  rooms  on  the  north  and  the  Stove 
House  on  the  south.  The  western  part  of  the 
building   consists   of   the    Economic    House   in 

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Human    Welfare    Work    in    Chicago 

the  middle,  with  the  Conifer  House  at  the  north- 
west corner,  and  the  New  Holland  House  at  the 
southwest.  The  space  surrounded  by  these  va- 
rious sections  is  occupied  by  the  Fern  House 
with  an  aquatic  display  in  the  center.  The  Fern 
House,  which  is  entered  from  the  Palm  House, 
presents  a  miniature  landscape  indoors,  with 
lawns,  lagoons  with  tropical  water  lilies,  and 
cliiFs  covered  with  ferns  and  tropical  climbers 
which  follow  the  walls  and  roof  support  of  the 
building.  The  Fern  House,  with  its  miniature 
waterfall  and  artificial  spring,  proves  of  great- 
est interest  to  the  layman,  who  can  find  here 
examples  of  every  species  of  these  wonderful 
plants.* 

The  Show  House  on  the  north  is  devoted  to 
exhibitions  during  the  year.  The  Chrysanthe- 
mum Display  is  held  in  the  autumn,  followed 
by  the  Christmas  exhibit  and  later  by  the  Easter 
show.  During  the  intervals  between  the  differ- 
ent exhibits,  this  house,  which  attracts  more  visi- 
tors than  any  other  part  of  the  conservatory,  is 
filled  with  all  kinds  of  flowering  plants,  propa- 
gated and  grown  in  the  propagating  houses  north 
of  the  conservatory. 

The  Conifer  House  contains  a  collection  of 
subtropical  evergreens,  Lebanon  Cedar,  creep- 
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THE   GARFIELD   PARK   CONSERVATORY 
The  most  distinguishing  feature  of  the  West  Park  System. 


OPEN-AIR   CONCERT  IN  ONE  OF   CITICAOO'S   PARKS 


Parks     and     Boulevards 

ing  jumpers  from  Japan,  and  tall  pines  from 
Florida,  the  Monkej'-  Pine  from  North  Africa, 
and  the  Umbrella  Pine  from  Japan. 

The  next  house  contains  a  complete  collection 
of  economic  plants  including  the  Orange  Tree, 
the  Lemon,  the  Pomegranate,  the  Pepper  Tree, 
Papaw  and  Cocoa  Plants. 

The  Stove  House  contains  a  collection  of  the 
rarest  tropical  plants. 

There  are  about  2,000  varieties  and  273,000 
plants,  at  an  estimated  value  of  about  $200,- 
000.00.  As  many  as  31,000  people  have  visited 
the  chiysanthemum  show  in  one  day. 

A  full  list  of  Chicago's  parks,  playgrounds, 
and  bathing  beaches  will  be  found  in  the  Ap- 
pendix to  this  volume. 

Much  has  been  and  can  be  said  for  and 
against  the  consolidation  of  all  the  different  park 
boards  under  the  city  government,  or  into  one 
organization  such  as  the  South  Park  Commission- 
ers. Nevertheless,  under  present  conditions  there 
is  considerable  competition  between  the  different 
organizations — a  sort  of  desire^  if  you  please, 
on  the  part  of  each  to  outdo  the  others.  This 
competition  has  resulted  in  much  good  for  the 
people,  to  whom  the  parks  belong.    The  different 

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systems  melt  into  each  other  admirably.  The 
parks  are  tied  together  with  75  miles  of  boule- 
vards in  such  a  manner  that  it  is  an  easy  matter 
to  motor  over  and  through  them  for  several 
hours  without  routes  being  recrossed  or  retraced. 


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Chapter  VI 

PUBLIC  RECREATION 

f^  HICAGO  has  a  conception  of  public  recre- 
ation that  is  broad  and  as  varied  as  are 
the  uses  of  the  leisui*e  time  of  its  thousands  of 
individuals.  Public  provision  for  recreation  in 
Chicago  is  limited  to  no  age,  no  season,  and  no 
particular  group  of  activities.  In  fact,  Chicago 
considers  it  to  be  the  function  of  public  recre- 
ation to  provide  opportunities  for  developmental 
recreation  for  all  the  people.  This  conception 
has  been  evolved  by  fifteen  years  of  service  for 
the  people  of  its  various  neighborhoods. 

Public  provision  for  supenased  recreation 
in  Chicago  began  with  children's  playgrounds, 
as  has  been  the  history  of  the  movement  in  most 
American  cities.  The  ground,  however,  had  been 
prepared  by  privately  supported  experiments 
during  the  last  decade  of  the  last  century.  With 
the  beginning  of  the  twentieth  centurj^  Chicago 
undertook  to  develop  this  service  upon  a  scale 
unprecedented  by  any  other  city  in  the  world. 

The  parking  boards  were  the  only  units  of 
government  existing  at  that  time  which  seemed 
to  be  in  any  way  organized  and  equipped  to  meet 
this   new   collective   fimction.      These   districts 

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Human    Welfare    Work    in    Chicago 

were,  and  are,  unique  in  powers  and  organization. 
The  large  districts  were  created  by  an  act  of  the 
legislature  in  1869  wliich  conferred  upon  them 
absolutely  independent  powers  in  taxation  and 
operation.  In  the  year  1899  these  bodies  were 
appealed  to,  to  perform  this  service. 

The  three  large  districts  of  Chicago  are  the 
Lincoln,  West,  and  South  Park  districts  and 
their  limits  are  quite  accurately  defined  by  the 
divisions  of  the  prairie  upon  which  Chicago  is 
built,  made  by  the  Chicago  River  and  the  north 
and  south  forks  of  this  stream.  A  new  parking 
board  —  The  Special  Park  Commission  —  was 
created  in  1899  to  provide  play  space  for  chil- 
dren, where  it  was  deemed  necessary  and  could 
not  be  done  by  the  other  parking  boards. 

It  is  seen,  then,  that  the  operating  bodies  first 
taking  charge  of  public  recreation  in  Chicago, 
were  parking  boards,  and  with  the  exception  of 
the  Special  Parking  Board,  all  were  independent 
of  the  city  government. 

In  190.5  the  South  Parks  opened  ten  "all-the- 
year-round"  recreation  parks,  equipped  with 
facilities  for  service  throughout  the  year.  Ap- 
proximately $5,000,000  were  spent  on  the 
grounds,  buildings,  and  equipment  for  this  initial 
endeavor. 

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Public     R  c  c  r  e  a  t  i  o  ii 


The  plans  of  buildings  and  service  were 
worked  out  with  little  previous  history  from  any 
source  to  draw  upon.  This  fact  made  the 
Chicago  plan  a  really  original  idea  of  service. 

The  West  and  Lincoln  Park  boards  soon 
followed  the  lead  of  the  South  Parks  and  today 
there  are  twenty-three  recreation  centers  com- 
pletelj^  equipped  for  year-round  service. 

The  buildings  and  equipment  at  one  park 
are  typical  of  all.    They  consist  of: 

( 1 )  A  fieldhouse  or  central  building,  containing  a  large 
assembly  hall,  club  rooms,  a  branch  of  the  Chicago 
Public  Library,  a  director's  office,  and  lobby. 

(2)  Locker  rooms  and  shower  baths  for  men  and  women. 

(3)  Indoor  gymnasiums  for  men  and  women. 

(4)  Outdoor  gymnasiums  for  men  and  women. 

(5)  Little  children's  playgroiuuls,  with  wading  pool,  sand 
court,  etc. 

(6)  Outdoor  swimming  pool. 

(7)  Large  play  area  with  ba.seball  field,  tennis  courts, 
football  field. 

(8)  Skating  areas  and  warming  houses   for  winter  use. 

(9)  In  the  West  parks  there  are  play-rooms  with  spe- 
cial instructors  for  little  children  too  small  to  go 
to  the  gymnasiums. 

These  park  centers  have  become  great  com- 
munity clearing  houses  for  all  community  needs. 
In  the  assembly  halls  the  neighborhoods  have 
their    dramatics,    musicals,    concerts,    lectures, 

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dances,  and  social  and  civic  gatherings.  The 
director  of  each  park  is  a  promotion  officer  and 
urges  all  the  neighborhood  organizations  of  a 
non-commercial  character  to  headquarter  at  the 
fieldhouse. 

The  numerous  associations  and  organizations 
of  the  city  doing  welfare  work,  such  as  the  Infant 
Welfare  Association,  Chicago  Tuberculosis  As- 
sociation, etc.,  use  the  fieldhouses  at  the  parks 
for  their  work  in  the  neighborhoods.  Civic  clubs 
and  improvement  associations  of  all  kinds  find 
the  parks  a  convenient  meeting  place. 

Gymnasiums:  The  indoor  gymnasiums  are 
in  charge  of  trained  instructors  who  organize 
classes  for  all  who  care  to  come,  and  assign  to 
each  class  regular  hours  and  lead  them  in  phys- 
ical work  adapted  to  their  needs.  Informal 
health  talks  are  given,  at  intervals,  by  the 
instructor  and  a  personal  touch  with  the  users  is 
established.  Games  of  simple  organization  are 
taught  little  children.  Gymnastic,  folk,  and 
social  dances  are  taught  to  both  sexes. 

Competitive  games  between  teams  represent- 
ing the  different  parks  of  the  city  are  regularly 
scheduled  each  year  and  these  contests  cover  the 
whole  field  of  events  used  in  standard  competi- 
tion.    Inter-park   contests   in   baseball,   basket 

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THE  WADING  POOL 
^Tark  White  Square. 


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McKinlej'  Park. 


Public     Recreation 


ball,  volley  ball,  tennis,  track  and  field  events, 
playground  ball,  wrestling,  gymnastics,  and 
swimming  are  held  each  year. 

There  are  more  than  60,000  boys  and  girls 
enrolled  in  the  classes  of  the  park  gymnasiums 
of  the  city  who  are  taking  regular  class  work 
and  participating  in  the  life  of  the  parks. 

Playgrounds  and  Outdoor  Gymnasiums: 
During  the  summer  the  physical  work  is  out  of 
doors  for  men,  women,  and  children.  The  formal 
work  of  the  indoor  gymnasiums  is  discontinued 
and  games  and  apparatus  take  its  place.  The 
children's  playgrounds  are  carefully  supervised 
and  led,  and  informal  programs  are  carried  out. 
These  programs  consist  of  constructive  sandpile 
work,  story-telling  and  imitative  play,  singing 
games,  circle  games,  sense  games,  and  to  some 
extent,  reed  and  raffia  work. 

The  playground  in  Chicago  has  passed  be- 
yond the  remedial  stage  and  is  considered  a 
constructive  juvenile  institution.  It  is  a  place 
where  children  may  not  only  play,  but  where 
they  may  be  given  play  knowledge  to  be  used 
elsewhere.  The  playground  must  teach  the  child 
plays  and  games  adapted  to  its  age  and  habitat. 

The  term  playground  has  been  used  to  de- 
scribe the  outdoor  play  spaces  for  children  in 

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Human     Welfare     Work     in     Chicai>o 


tliis  chai)ter.  The  entire  center  used  for  recrea- 
tion cannot  be  so  described,  although  the  term 
is  generally  so  used  in  Chicago.  Tliere  are  about 
70  seasonal  playgrounds  in  Chicago,  furnished 
with  apparatus  and  leadership.  This  includes 
the  playgrounds  of  all  the  parks.  In  addition 
to  this  list,  there  are  a  number  of  school  play- 
grounds functioning  somewhat  as  do  the  park 
playgrounds. 

Outdoor  Pools:  The  outdoor  swimming 
pools  of  Chicago  are  used,  during  the  summer, 
more  than  any  of  the  other  facilities  at  the  rec- 
reation centers.  They  are  so  large  that  they  are 
substitutes  for  the  "old  swimming  hole"  and  they 
excel  the  old  institution.  The  largest  pool  is  at 
McKinley  Park  and  it  is  approximately  an  acre 
in  size.  From  2,000  to  3,000  people  bathe  in  one 
of  these  pools  on  a  hot  day  in  summer.  Over 
1,000,000  swims  are  recorded  every  season.  Men 
and  women  use  the  pools  on  separate  days.  Usu- 
ally two  days  each  week  are  "girls'  days"  and 
four  are  reserved  for  boys.  A  thorough  clean- 
ing is  given  the  pool  on  the  seventh  day. 

The  care  given  these  public  pools  has  pre- 
vented diseases  from  developing  among  the 
bathers  because  of  using  them.  Aside  from  the 
sanitary  regulations  in  the  care  of  the  pool,  each 

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THE  PLAYROOIM 
Pulaski  Park. 


THE   PLAYGROUND 
Davis  Square. 


THE   BOYS'  CYMNASIUM 
Hamilton  Park. 


THE  r^IRLS'   GYMNARIITM 
Hamilton  Park. 


Public     Recreation 


bather  must  take  a  warm  shower  and  thoroughly 
cleanse  the  body  before  entering  the  pool. 

Beaches:  The  use  of  Lake  Michigan  for 
recreational  purposes  has  grown  rapidly  during 
the  last  few  years.  Publicly  supported  and  oper- 
ated beaches  and  many  public  commercial  beaches 
line  the  shore  from  Evanston  to  Calumet  Park. 
All  the  public  beaches  are  operated  by  the  park- 
ing boards  and  there  are  nine  in  all. 

The  new  Clarendon  Beach  is  a  beautifully 
equipped  public  beach  and  with  the  Diversey 
Beach  and  the  new  Jackson  Park  Beach,  Chi- 
cago has  public  facilities  to  give  daily  service  to 
over  200,000  people. 

MuNiciPAi.  Pier:  A  new  Municipal  Pier 
was  opened  in  1916.  It  is  a  $4,000,000  struc- 
ture and  is  located  near  the  center  of  the  city's 
shore  line,  at  the  foot  of  Grand  Avenue.  It  is 
provided  with  promenades,  dance  hall,  and  out- 
ing areas.  This  is  primarily  a  commercial  pier 
to  provide  wharfing  for  the  vessels,  but  ample 
space  is  devoted  to  recreation.  It  is  administered 
by  the  Harbor  Bureau. 

Games:  There  are  five  public  golf  courses 
in  Chicago;  two  at  Jackson  Park,  one  at  Mar- 
quette, Lincoln,  and  Garfield  parks,  respectively. 
One  Jackson  Park  course  and  the  Marquette 

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course  are  18-hole  courses.  The  Jackson  Park 
18-hole  course  is  provided  with  a  shelter  con- 
taining shower  baths  and  locker  accommodations 
for  3,000  golfers. 

At  all  the  public  courses  it  has  been  neces- 
sary to  start  golfers  from  the  first  tee  by  tickets 
drawn  in  advance.  At  Jackson  Park  a  full  regis- 
tration system  was  put  into  operation  during 
the  summer  of  1916.  During  the  past  year 
registration  was  possible  on  Saturdays,  Sundays, 
and  holidays.  The  courses  open  as  early  as  the 
sun  gets  up.  Play  is  continuous  if  the  grounds 
allow,  and  they  are  seldom  closed  because  of 
weather  conditions. 

At  the  two  courses  in  Jackson  Park,  over 
324,000  golfers  teed  off  during  the  year  1916. 
Twice  as  many  people  play  over  the  Jackson 
Park  long  course  as  over  the  famous  St.  An- 
drews. 

Aside  from  these  publicly  supported  courses, 
there  are  fifty-five  private  courses  in  Chicago  and 
its  environs. 

There  are  about  500  public  tennis  courts  in 
Chicago  and  this  supply  does  not  begin  to  meet 
the  demand.  Special  tennis  areas  are  being  de- 
veloped at  the  large  parks  but  the  best  courts 
are  found  at  the  small  parks.    Clay,  asphalt,  and 

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grass  courts  are  scattered  throughout  the  city 
and  adequate  backstops  are  being  provided  at 
most  of  the  public  courses.  The  old  speedway 
on  South  Park  Avenue,  to  the  west  of  Washing- 
ton Park,  has  been  converted  into  a  half  mile 
of  tennis  courts.  Last  year  backstops  were 
erected  and  this  at  present  is  the  largest  and 
best  equipped  tennis  gTound  in  the  city.  It  con- 
tains twenty-five  courts. 

The  use  of  tennis  courts  is  based  upon  the 
"first  come,  first  served"  principle  in  the  West 
and  South,  but  the  Lincoln  Park  System  re- 
serves tennis  courts  upon  application. 

A  number  of  tennis  clubs  playing  upon  pub- 
lic courts  have  been  organized.  They  have  large 
memberships  and  interesting  programs.  The 
Washington  Park,  Jackson  Park,  Hamilton 
Park,  and  Garfield  Park  tennis  clubs  have  a 
total  membership  of  over  500  and  are  doing 
much  to  build  up  the  best  ideals  of  sport  in 
Chicago. 

Baseball  is  more  popular  among  boys  in  Chi- 
cago than  any  other  team  game.  Thousands  of 
spectators  watch  the  games  during  the  summer 
all  over  the  city  in  large  and  small  parks,  corner 
lots,  and  prairie  diamonds.  The  numbers  actu- 
ally participating  in  the  game  are  not  as  large 

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Human    Welfare    Work    in    C  li i c a g o 

as  in  tennis,  but  the  spectators  outnumber  those 
in  any  other  sport.  The  game  of  baseball  is  not 
well  organized  in  Chicago,  but  over  1,000  teams 
played  in  the  various  amateur  and  semi-profes- 
sional leagues  during  the  summer  of  1916. 

Plans  have  been  developed  for  organizing 
school  leagues,  playground  leagues,  a  city  ama- 
teur league,  and  to  offer  some  cooperation  in 
officiating  and  securing  diamonds. 

There  are  a  hundred  and  eight  public  base- 
ball diamonds  in  Chicago.  They  are  adminis- 
tered in  two  ways:  reservations  and  the  "first 
come,  first  served"  principle. 

Archery  has  developed  to  a  considerable  ex- 
tent as  an  outdoor  pastime  in  Chicago.  The 
Washington  Park  Archery  Club  entertained  the 
National  Association  in  their  championship  con- 
tests during  the  summer  of  1915.  This  club  has 
over  fifty  members  and  the  archery  ranges  are 
filled  every  pleasant  afternoon.  The  sport  is 
being  taken  up  by  several  organizations  and  the 
influence  of  the  use  of  a  public  park  for  the 
ranges  is  the  cause.  Three  parks  organized  clubs 
in  1916  and  half  a  dozen  country  clubs  have 
added  it  to  their  activities. 

The  roque  courts  at  Washington  and  Lin- 
coln   parks    are    used   during    all    the   summer 

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TENXl.S 
Humboldt  Park. 


ROQUJ': 
Wasliiriffton   Pari. 


CASTING 
Washington    Park    pool. 


BOATING 
Washington   Piirk, 


Public     Recreation 


season.  They  are  provided  with  electric  lights 
and  are  used  eveiy  evening.  The  National  Roque 
Association  held  its  tournaments  at  Washing- 
ton Park  in  1915  and  some  of  the  contestants 
pronounced  them  the  best  courts  in  the  country. 

Fly-casting  as  a  sport  has  a  large  number  of 
followers  in  Chicago,  and  clubs  for  developing 
fly-casting  have  existed  for  some  years.  A  house 
is  provided  for  the  members  of  the  club  at 
Washington  Park.  There  is  a  good  organi- 
zation on  the  West  Side;  it  practices  at  Douglas 
Park. 

Recreation  Center:  The  public  facilities 
offered  by  the  parking  bodies  of  Chicago  have 
been  mentioned  and  perhaps  a  more  accurate 
conception  of  some  phases  of  the  service  may  be 
obtained  by  giving  a  closer  view^  of  the  adminis- 
tration and  activities  of  one  park  center.  These 
park  centers  are  public  community  clearing 
houses  and  are  used  by  the  various  neighbor- 
hoods for  any  collective  purpose.  The  assembly 
halls  are  reserved  to  groups  sixty  days  or  less 
in  advance.  The  dramatic,  musical,  and  civic 
organizations  of  the  park  and  the  neighborhood, 
reserve  the  assembly  halls  for  their  pm-poses. 
No  charge  is  made  for  the  hall  and  no  fees  are 
charged  by  the  various  groups  using  the  halls. 

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Human    Welfare    Work    in    Chicago 

During  the  past  few  years  neighborhood 
councils  have  been  developed  at  these  parks  for 
the  purpose  of  more  efficiently  articulating  the 
various  activities  and  welfare  agencies  of  the 
community. 

These  councils  have  supplemented  the  directed 
work  of  the  parks  by  enlisting  leaders  and  sup- 
port for  many  community  needs.  They  have  de- 
veloped citizenship  classes  for  foreigners;  voca- 
tional talks;  civic  classes  for  various  groups  and 
ages;  art  classes;  domestic  science  classes;  boys' 
and  girls'  summer  camps;  industrial  exhibitions 
and  celebrations ;  and  have  studied  the  whole  field 
of  collective  problems  that  confront  every  Amer- 
ican neighborhood. 

A  very  large  work  in  developing  a  civic  con- 
sciousness is  being  done  at  these  park  centers  by 
the  council  and  the  agencies  it  enlists.  The  ward 
civic  leagues  have  their  meetings  at  the  parks, 
and  many  civic  problems  are  worked  out  in  a 
public  forum  manner  and  by  study  groups. 

Social  dances  are  held  in  the  assembly  halls 
all  over  Chicago  and  the  groups  gi^^ng  dances 
secure  the  hall  free  and  are  only  asked  to  con- 
form to  the  rules  laid  down  by  the  governing 
bodies.  In  all  the  public  assembly  halls  of  Chi- 
cago the  following  regulations  prevail: 

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(1)  Dancers  are  courteously  requested  to  respect  the 
rights  of  others  by  avoiding  all  extreme  and  uncon- 
ventional forms  of  dancing. 

(2)  Couples  must  maintain  the  open  position  and  avoid 
all  side  movements  of  the  hips  and  shouklers. 

(3)  The  music  played  by  the  musical  organizations  for 
dances  must  conform  to  the  rules  thereupon,  adopted 
by  the  American  Federation  of  Musicians  and  other 
similar  organizations. 

NOTE:  Extract  from  Constitution,  By-Laws,  and  Stand- 
ing Resolutions  of  the  American  Federation  of 
Musicians : 

"Resolved,  That  this  Convention  condemns  the  publi- 
cation, use,  and  circulation  of  all  so-called  popular 
songs  of  immoral  and  suggestive  sentiment  and 
title,  which  have  only  a  degrading  effect  on  musical 
art,  and  especially  upon  the  morals  of  the  younger 
generation." 

These  dances  are  municipal  dances  in  the 
best  sense.  Although  not  open  for  anyone  who 
wishes  to  stroll  in,  they  serve  the  neighborhood 
and  do  away  with  promiscuity  which  is  one  evil 
of  the  open  public  dance. 

The  recreation  centers  provide  programs  that 
offer  opportunities  and  service  for  the  three  dis- 
tinct problems  in  public  recreational  service. 
These  problems  deal  with  children,  adolescent 
boys  and  girls,  and  adults. 

Aside  from  the  provisions  for  the  physical 
needs  of  childhood,  such  as  the  gymnasiums,  play- 
grounds, pools,  at  each  park  center,  there  is  a 

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Human    Welfare    Work    in    Chicago 

carefully  adniinistered  program  designed  to  meet 
the  needs  of  the  child's  whole  nature.  The  Li- 
brary Board  has  established  children's  depart- 
ments at  all  the  branch  libraries  so  that  books, 
magazines,  and  pictures  adapted  to  needs  of  the 
children  of  the  neighborhood  are  provided.  A 
storj^  hour  each  week  is  conducted  by  a  trained 
story  teller  sent  out  bj^  the  public  library  direc- 
tors. Celebrations  of  special  days  and  holidays 
are  arranged  for  the  children  and  festivals  and 
pageants  for  the  seasons  are  produced  at  each 
park.  Christmas  celebrations  are  annual  events 
at  the  park.  At  some  parks  there  are  savings 
banks,  for  the  purpose  of  encouraging  thrift. 
The  Camp  Fire  Girls  and  Boy  Scouts  have  or- 
ganizations all  over  the  city  and  appeal  to  the 
children  of  the  proper  age — twelve  years  or  over. 

During  the  summer,  excursions  to  nearby 
woods,  beaches,  and  pools  are  conducted  by  the 
instructors  for  the  children  of  the  playgrounds, 
and  at  other  times  lunches  are  brought  to  the 
park  and  the  picnic  is  enjoyed  at  home.  Many 
of  Chicago's  playgrounds  are  in  parks  large 
enough  to  allow  this  wholesome  pastime  to  be 
enjoyed  under  ideal  conditions. 

Contests  of  various  kinds  are  made  a  part  of 
the  appeal  to  childhood  and  kite-flying,  boating 

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THE   PUBLIC   PLAYGROUND 
Robey   Street. 


THE  HOLDEN  PLAYGROUND 
Thirty-first  Street  and  Bonfield  Avenue. 


EiAST    END    TARK 


ADAMS  PARK 


Public     Recreation 


with  toy  boats,  home-made  flying  machines,  and 
sand-pile  construction,  are  some  of  the  activities 
promoted  in  these  exhibitions  and  contests. 

A  badge  or  button  is  given  all  boys  and  girls 
in  the  Chicago  playgrounds  who  pass  one  of  the 
graded  tests  prescribed.  These  tests  are  pro- 
gressive and  a  bronze  button  is  given  for  the 
first,  a  silver  for  the  second,  and  a  gold  for  the 
third.  These  tests  are  a  means  for  developing 
practice  and  good  form  in  healthful  exercise. 
During  the  summer  of  1915  over  3,000  children 
passed  one  or  more  of  these  tests  in  the  South 
Park  playgrounds  alone. 

The  singing  games,  ring  games,  and  sense 
games  taught  at  the  playgrounds  contain  mate- 
rial designed  to  fit  the  needs  of  the  children 
when  they  are  away  from  the  playgrounds  and 
thus  provide  for  the  lack  of  a  social  inheritance 
in  our  Chicago  neighborhoods. 

All  the  above  work  is  carried  out  more  or  less 
systematically  at  the  Chicago  playgrounds,  par- 
ticularly at  the  playgrounds  operated  by  the 
West,  Lincoln,  and  South  parks.  The  wSpecial 
Park  playgrounds  are  working  toward  this  plan 
of  teaching  play  at  children's  playgrounds. 

Women  instructors  are  used  for  the  children. 
Both  sexes  are  together  up  to  the  age  of  ten  or 

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Human    Welfare    Work    in    Chicago 

twelve  years.  After  these  ages  they  are  segre- 
gated. 

Adolescence  calls  for  a  different  program 
from  that  of  childhood.  The  recreation  centers 
try  to  meet  this  in  adding  activities  to  those  pro- 
vided by  the  play  fields,  outdoor  and  indoor 
gymnasiums. 

Clubs  are  organized  for  the  purpose  of  giv- 
ing expression  to  dramatic,  musical,  and  social 
needs.  Organizations  aiming  to  offer  develop- 
mental opportunities  in  the  industrial  world  are 
promoted.  Vocational  clubs,  debating  societies, 
study  groups,  exist  all  over  the  city.  Boys  and 
girls  using  the  parks  are  organized  into  many 
social  groups  and  dances,  and  social  evenings 
are  enjoyed  under  the  most  wholesome  condi- 
tions. 

Cooperation  with  many  local  agencies  for 
helping  boys  and  girls  is  a  practice  at  all  the 
recreation  centers.  The  College  Alumni  Asso- 
ciation for  Volimteers,  Big  Brother  Movement, 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  and  Thrifty 
clubs  are  offered  cooperation  in  every  way  in 
their  work  to  make  better  men  and  women. 

The  adult  program  has  developed  very  fast 
during  the  last  few  years  in  the  organization  and 
participation   of  all  the  neighborhood.      Civic 

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Public     Recreation 


activities  are  the  latest  direction  of  growth  and 
have  developed  by  leaps  and  bounds  in  the  past 
months.  The  activities  that  may  be  classed  as 
adult  are  coming  to  include  pretty  much  every- 
thing that  touches  the  collective  life  of  the  peo- 
ple living  in  the  neighborhood.  Lectures,  ci\ac 
meetings,  study  groups,  English  classes  for  for- 
eigners, domestic  science  classes,  art  exhibits, 
welfare  exhibits,  are  the  events  of  such  a  pro- 
gram. The  active  participation  of  the  neighbor- 
hood is  secured  by  the  council  organization. 

The  following  specific  program  of  regular 
activities  at  Hamilton  Park,  72nd  Street  and 
Normal  Boulevard,  may  be  taken  as  typical : 


MONDAY 

Gymnasium: 


Club  Room: 


Aftebnoon 


Girls  9-10  years,  3:30;  13  years  and  older, 

4:30. 
Boys,   9-10   years,   3:30;  High-School   boys, 

4:30. 

Table  Games:     Girls  and  Boys,  4:00-5:00. 


TUESDAY 

Gymnasium: 

Assembly  Hall: 

Club  Room: 

Gymnasium: 


Girls,  7-8  years,  3:30;  11-12  years,  4:30. 
Boys,  7-9  years,  3:30;  12-13  years,  4:30. 

Children's   Chorus:     Boys    and    Girls,    3:30- 
4:30. 

Boys  and  Girls'  Kinderg-arten,  4:00-5:00. 
Minerva  Women's  Club  (1st  and  3rd  Tues- 
days), 2:00. 

Women's  Class,  2:00-3:00. 

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WEDNESDAY 
Gymnasium: 


Club  Koom: 
Assembly  Hall: 


('hildren   under   7   years,   3:30. 

Girls'  Team:  Game  Practice  and  Rehears- 
als, 4:30-6:00. 

Boys,  10-12  years,  3:30;  Matched  Games, 
4:30-5:00. 

Table  Games:     Boys  and  Girls,  4:00. 

Dramatics:  Junior  Sections  "A"  and  "B," 
4:00. 


THURSDAY 

Gymnasium: 


Assembly  Hall: 


FRIDAY 

Gymnasium 


Girls,  9-10  years,  3:30;   13  years  and  over, 

4:30. 
Boys,   9-10  years,   3:30;  Hig-h-School   Boys, 

4:30. 

Story  Hour,  Children  under  10  years,  4:00. 
Story  Hour,  Children  under  10  years,  4:30. 


Girls,   7-8  years,   3:30;   11-12   years,   4:30. 
Boys,  7-9  years,  3:30;  10-12  years,  4:30. 
Assembly  Hall:      Children's   Chorus:     Boys   and   Girls,    4:30- 
5:30. 


SATURDAY 

Gymnasium:  Girls'    Play    and    Games,    1:30-3:00;    Girls' 

Class.  3:00-4:00. 
Boys'    85-lb.    Team    Practice,    1:30-2:30. 
Boys'   Team   Organization,    2:30-3:30;   Park 
Gymnasium  Team,   4:15-5:30. 
Assembly  Hall:      Grammar-School     Social     Dancing     Class, 

2:00-3:00. 
Club  Room:  Doll  Club:     Children,  2:00-3:00. 

Table  Games,  Boys  and  Girls,  3:00-5:00. 
Gymnasium:  Interpretative    Dancing,    2:00-3:00. 


SUNDAY 

Gymnasium; 


Assembly  Hall: 


Girls,  Directed  Plays  and  Games,  1:30-6:00. 

Boys  under  15  years,  1:30-3:00;  over  15 
years,  3:30-4:30. 

Boys,  Matched  Games,  4:00-6:00. 

Pleasant  Hour:  October  and  December, 
March   and  April,   3:30. 

Civic  Music  Concerts,  January  and  Febru- 
ary,  3:30. 


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Public     Recreation 


MONDAY 

Assembly  Hall: 


Gymnasium: 


TUESDAY 

Assembly  Hall : 


Gymnasium: 


Club  Room: 


WEDNESDAY 

Club  Room: 
Gymnasium: 


THURSDAY 

Club  Room: 
Assembly  Hall: 

Gymnasium: 

Club  Room: 

FRIDAY 

Club  Room: 
Assembly  Hall: 

Gymnasium : 
Club  Room: 


Evening 

Colonial     Class,     Folk    Dances     (alternate 

Mondays),  8:30. 
Dancing-     Class,     Section     "A"      (alternate 

Mondays),    8:30-10:30. 
Civic  Music  Chorus,  8:15-10:00. 
Boy  Scouts'  Drill,  7:30-8:30. 
Women   Beginners,   7:30;  advanced,   8:30. 
Boys,   Employed,   7:30;  Business  Men,   8:30. 
Boys'  Wrestling-,    8:00-10:00. 


Hamilton  Park  Neighborhood  Council  (2nd 

Tuesday),  8:00. 
Gresham    Treble    Clef    Club    (1st    and    3rd 

Tuesdays),   8:00. 
Women's    Advanced    Class,    7:30-8:30    and 

8:30-9:30. 
Young  Men's  Class,  7:30-9:30. 
Ladies'  Modern  Social  Dancing  Class,  8:00- 

9:00. 


Adults'  Social  Dancing  Class,   7:30-9:30. 
Advanced  Girls,   7:30-9:30. 
Men's  Matched  Games,  7:30-10:00. 


Ladies'  Modern  Dancing  Class,  7:30-8:30. 
Community      Dancing      Class      (alternate 
Thursdays),    8:30. 

Women    Beginners,     7:30-8:30;     Advanced, 

8:30-9:30. 
High-School  Modern  Social  Dancing  Class, 

(alternate  Thursdays),   8:30. 

Boy  Scout  Meeting-,  7:30-9:30. 
Parent-Teacher  Association   (2nd   Friday), 
8:00-10:00. 

Advanced     Women's     Class,     Section     "A," 

7:30;  Section  "B,"  8:30-9:30. 
Young  Men's  Class,  7:30-9:30. 
Young  People's  Dramatic  Club,   8:00-10:00. 


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SATURDAY 

Club  Room:  Young-    People's    Modern    Social     Dancing 

Class,   7:30-8:30. 
Gymnasium:  Matched  Games  for  Men,  7:30-10:00. 

Women's  Advanced  Class,   7:30-9:30. 

This  program  does  not  include  the  regular 
meetings  of  private  clubs,  classes,  dances,  par- 
ties, receptions,  concerts,  recitals,  etc.,  that  are 
held  daily  in  the  fieldhouse.  The  following  fa- 
cilities also  exist:  The  library,  a  branch  of  the 
Chicago  Public  Library,  open  on  weeks  days 
from  1 :00-9 :00  p.  m.  and  on  Sundays  from  1 :00- 
6:00,  and  Shower  Baths  open  daily  from  12:00 
to  9 :30  p.  M. 

All  the  employees  of  the  parks  of  Chicago 
are  appointed  upon  civil  service  examinations 
provided  according  to  a  state  law  passed  in  1911. 
Since  the  law  went  into  effect  in  the  parks  of 
Chicago,  not  a  single  case  of  spoils  politics  or 
job  jockeying  has  been  charged  against  them. 
The  best  applicants  are  secured  by  the  civil 
service  method  and  the  tenure  of  office  is  not 
conditioned  upon  anything  but  efficiency  and  at- 
tention to  duties. 

The  Board  of  Education  has  established  a 
nimiber  of  school  social  centers  and  is  preparing 
a  more  extensive  program  for  the  wider  use  of 
the  school  plant.     All  the  activities  that  have 

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grown  up  in  recent  years  and  have  been  placed 
upon  the  public  schools  are  to  be  concentrated 
into  one  department  and  super\dsed  by  a  trained 
and  experienced  head.  The  children's  gardens, 
night  schools,  social  centers,  and  play  yards,  will 
be  supervised  and  developed  consistently  and 
extensively. 

The  Carter  Harrison  Technical  High  School 
has  developed  a  social  center  that  in  its  service  to 
its  community  typifies  the  work  that  is  desired 
throughout  the  city.  Here  is  a  community  coun- 
cil composed  of  the  best  citizens  of  the  neigh- 
borhood. The  officers  of  the  council  and  the 
committees  appointed  by  the  President  diligently 
serve  all  the  neighborhood  interests.  Civic  pro- 
grams are  encouraged,  entertainments  and  con- 
certs are  secured,  activities  of  a  developmental 
character  are  provided  with  leaders,  and  the 
social  life  of  the  neighborhood  is  furnished  with 
a  place  for  its  expression. 

The  Art  Institute  (more  fully  treated  else- 
where in  this  volume),  located  in  Grant  Park, 
is  a  municipal  museum  as  well  as  school,  and  is 
contributing  to  the  recreation  and  pleasure  of 
all  the  city.  Built  by  private  subscription,  it  is 
supported  in  part  by  the  taxpayers  of  the  South 
Park  district,  to  the  extent  of  about  $100,000  a 

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Human    Welfare    Work    in    Chicago 

year.  Aside  from  the  exhibits  open  to  the  pub- 
He  at  the  Institute,  pictures  are  loaned  to  varied 
agencies  in  the  city  and  are  exhibited  in  the 
various  neighborhoods.  A  special  department 
has  recently  been  organized  for  the  purpose  of 
administering  and  developing  this  art  extension 
work. 

The  Art  Institute  has  done  more  than  minis- 
ter to  the  visualistic  art  needs  of  the  city;  con- 
certs are  held  at  Fullerton  Hall,  in  the  Art 
Institute,  at  a  nominal  fee;  a  girls'  club  is  pro- 
vided with  headquarters  at  the  Institute  and  its 
membership  is  city  wide  in  residence  and  interests. 

All  recreational  facilities  in  Chicago,  with 
the  exception  of  the  boats  at  the  park  lagoons, 
are  used  by  the  public  absolutely  free  of  charge. 
This  fact  is  significant  in  view  of  the  controversy 
in  certain  cities  over  the  question  of  fees  for  the 
uses  of  public  facilities.  Chicago  has  taken  the 
position  that  recreation  is  educational  and  should 
be  supported  in  the  way  educational  institutions 
are  supported.  The  pauperization  of  the  people 
has  not  resulted  from  free  schools  and  free  text- 
books and  it  will  not  result  from  free  baths. 
There  is  no  danger  of  pauperizing  by  giving  any- 
one an  opportunity  to  participate  in  develop- 
mental recreation.     Pauperization  comes  from 

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giving  goods  and  materials  from  no  adequate 
service.  Public  support  of  recreation  has  come 
to  stay  in  Chicago  and  all  fees  will  be  carefully 
discussed  by  the  governing  bodies  before  they  are 
imposed. 

Public  recreation  in  Chicago  is  being  served 
by  parking  boards,  the  Board  of  Education,  the 
Library  Board,  the  Art  Institute,  and  the  City. 
The  total  sum  of  money  expended  is  larger  than 
in  any  other  city  in  America,  and  it  is  significant 
that  no  criticism  of  the  expenditure  of  money 
for  recreation  has  ever  been  made  upon  the  prin- 
ciple of  public  support  of  such  a  function.  It 
has  been  estimated  that  Chicago  spends  two  dol- 
lars per  capita  each  year  for  the  maintenance  of 
public  recreational  needs.  The  funds  invested 
in  these  recreational  facilities  run  into  the  mil- 
lions and,  of  course,  have  increased  in  value  to 
a  very  great  amount,  since  they  were  set  out. 

Chicago  feels  that  its  investment  in  play- 
grounds, beaches,  parks,  libraries,  play  leaders, 
etc.,  is  a  constructive  attack  upon  the  multitude 
of  social  ills  that  afflict  our  congested  popula- 
tion. Juvenile  delinquency  and  crime,  truancy, 
public  commercial  dance  hall  evils,  bad  gangs, 
industrial  inefficiency,  white  slavery,  are  all  re- 
sults of  the  misuse  of  leisure  time. 


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Human    Welfare    Work    in     Chicago 

The  direct  benefits  come  in  a  chance  for  a 
normal  expression  of  fundamental  instincts. 
Neighborhoods  become  more  livable,  the  neces- 
sary conventions  of  society  spread  and  become 
established,  the  cleanliness  of  the  people  and  the 
places  improves,  and  the  joy  of  play  is  given  to 
thousands  of  children  that  otherwise  would  not 
have  it ;  neighborliness  is  developed,  music  grows 
as  a  means  of  community  expression,  better 
music  is  appreciated  and  developed,  and  a  civic 
consciousness  is  awakened  by  Chicago's  system 
of  public  recreation. 


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SUMMARY  OF 
PHILANTHROPIC   WORK 


Chapter  VII 

SUMMARY  OF  PHILANTHROPIC 
WORK 

T^HE  field  of  philanthropic  endeavor  in  Chi- 
cago  has  not  been  neglected  by  either  pub- 
lic or  private  agencies.  Particularly  productive 
results  have  been  obtained  in  the  following  de- 
partments: Child  Welfare,  Civic  Betterment, 
Corrections,  Special  Education,  Charitable  Em- 
ployment Offices,  Moral  Reform,  Homes,  Medi- 
cal Aid,  Legal  Aid,  Neighborhood  Work,  Relief, 
and  Family  Rehabilitation  and  Thrift  and  Loan 
Offices. 

Child  Welfare:  Cliild  Welfare  is  pro- 
moted by  association  offices,  by  clubs  for  boys 
and  girls,  by  day  nurseries,  by  special  institutions 
for  dependent  children,  and  by  associations  for 
placing  children  in  families. 

These  organizations  are  located  throughout 
the  city,  and  include  the  Bureau  of  Personal 
Service,  furnishing  advice  in  securing  institu- 
tions and  care  and  ser^dce  for  neglected  children ; 
the  Child  Study  Department  of  the  Chicago 
Board  of  Education,  caring  for  children  requir- 
ing special  attention;  the  Chicago  Daily  News 
Fresh  Air  Fund,  providing  for  sick  babies  and 

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Human    Welfare    \^^ork    in    Chicago 

giving  them  fresh  air,  sanitation,  milk,  food,  and 
follow-up  treatment  with  care  in  homes;  the 
Division  of  Children's  Institutions,  Cook  County 
Bureau  of  Welfare,  investigating  conditions  of 
families  of  dependent  children  who  have  been 
conmiitted  to  public  institutions  by  the  Juvenile 
Court;  the  Elizabeth  McCormick  Memorial 
Fund,  working  to  improve  conditions  of  children 
in  the  United  States,  and  especially  in  Chicago; 
the  Infant  Welfare  Society,  instructing  mothers 
in  the  care  and  feeding  of  their  infants — a  free 
institution  with  twenty-two  stations  in  the  city; 
the  Juvenile  Protective  Association,  suppressing 
and  eliminating  conditions  causing  delinquency 
among  children,  and  promoting  wholesome  con- 
ditions for  their  betterment;  the  Dependent 
Children's  Department  of  the  Juvenile  Court,  in 
charge  of  dependent  children  on  probation  and 
delinquent  girls  on  probation;  the  Public  De- 
fenders' Association  of  the  Boys'  Court,  which 
provides  free  counsel  for  all  hearings  in  that 
court;  the  Public  Guardian  of  Cook  County, 
acting  for  minors;  and  the  Society  of  St.  Vin- 
cent De  Paul  of  Chicago,  providing  proper  care 
for  neglected  and  dependent  Catholic  children. 
Clubs  for  Boys  and  Girls:  Chicago  is  well 
supplied  with  such  clubs  as  the  Big  Brothers' 

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Summary    of    Philanthropic     Work 

Club  of  Chicago,  organized  on  a  city-wide  basis, 
to  serve  boys  whose  future  may  be  imperiled  be- 
cause of  environment,  to  refer  them  to  other 
organizations,  and  to  bring  them  into  friendly 
relations  with  men  of  character  who  are  inter- 
ested in  aiding  them  to  find  themselves ;  the  Chi- 
cago Boy  Scouts  of  America,  which  organizes, 
correlates  and  supervises  boy  scout  troops; 
churches.  Young  Men's  Christian  Associations, 
settlement  houses,  playgrounds,  boys'  clubs,  and 
summer  camps;  the  Chicago  Boys'  Club,  to 
promote  moral,  mental,  and  physical  develop- 
ment of  street  boys;  the  Deborah  Boys'  Club, 
which  gives  room  and  board  to  young  working 
boys  at  nominal  charge;  the  Hull  House  Boys' 
Department,  for  the  general  welfare  of  the  boys 
of  the  community;  and  the  Off- the- Street  Club, 
to  promote  child  training  and  wise  comradeships 
of  children,  with  instruction  and  amusement. 

Day  Nuhsekies:  There  are  about  40  day 
nurseries  for  children  in  Chicago,  each  with 
capacity  varying  from  25  to  200.  Some  are  sec- 
tarian, and  others  are  non-sectarian.  They  are 
in  general  supported  by  voluntary  contributions 
or  through  charitable  organizations.  In  some 
nurseries  the  care  is  free,  and  in  others  a  charge 
of  from  one  to  ten  cents  a  day  is  collected.  These 

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nurseries  give  daily  care  to  children  of  work- 
ing mothers.  In  some  instances  they  furnish 
clothing,  instruction,  and  other  material  assist- 
ance. 

Institutions  for  Dependent  Children: 
There  are  in  Chicago  about  thirty  institutions 
whose  object  is  to  provide  home  and  shelter  for 
boys  and  girls.  There  are  twelve  for  boys  alone 
and  seven  for  girls  alone.  There  are  about  a 
dozen  societies  or  associations  which  have  for 
their  object  the  placing  of  children  in  families. 
The  capacity  of  these  institutions  is  in  some  in- 
stances as  great  as  six  hundred. 

Corrections:  Institutions  for  corrections 
are  both  public  and  private.  They  number  at 
least  twenty-five.  Through  these  institutions  are 
brought  about  effective  probation  laws,  relief, 
protection,  reform,  and  instruction  of  delinquent 
and  wayward  persons,  both  male  and  female,  as 
well  as  care  of  the  feeble-minded,  of  the  insane, 
and  of  prisoners  before  and  after  release. 
Within  their  walls  are  brought  to  the  inmates 
messages  of  hope  and  help  to  form  habits  of 
self-mastery  and  reformation,  with  aid  in  prac- 
tical ways  to  success  therein. 

Education:  In  the  realm  of  education, 
aside  from  those  agencies  established  by  govern- 

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mental  authority  for  general  education  and  edu- 
cation of  defectives,  suhnormals,  blind,  crippled, 
deaf,  and  epileptic,  there  are  some  eight  associa- 
tions which  have  for  their  object  education  of 
immigrants.  There  are  at  least  thirty  associa- 
tions or  institutions  to  give  or  provide  industrial 
education,  including  domestic  science,  elementary 
agriculture,  and  various  handicrafts,  especially 
for  boys  and  girls.  Chicago  is  rich  in  libraries 
and  museimis,  aside  from  those  supported  by 
public  funds.  Some  of  them  are  open  to  the 
public,  although  others  of  special  nature,  such 
as  law  and  medical  libraries,  are  open  only  to 
those  persons  who  have  special  privileges  or 
memberships.  The  Field  Museum,  the  John 
Crerar  Library,  and  the  Chicago  Public  Library 
rise  to  great  magnitude  in  their  respective 
spheres.  The  promotion  of  public  school  social 
work  receives  special  consideration  by  many  pri- 
vate organizations.  It  includes  loaning  of  pic- 
tures and  other  works  of  art  in  the  public  schools, 
and  giving  of  material  aid  in  general  to  poor 
children.  There  are  at  least  a  dozen  special 
training  schools  in  Chicago  for  children  and 
adults.  Higher  education  is  promoted  by  two 
great  universities  and  by  several  technical  insti- 
tutes and  smaller  colleges. 

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Employment  Agencies:  The  employment 
agencies  of  a  charitable  nature  number  at  least 
thirty-five.  They  aid  in  finding  employment  for 
all  classes  of  unemployed.  The  welfare  of  im- 
migrants receives  special  consideration  from  half 
a  dozen  organizations.  In  the  industrial  world, 
at  least  sixteen  large  corporations  or  firms  have 
special  agencies  or  institutions  looking  to  the  wel- 
fare of  their  employees  mentally,  morally,  and 
physically.  Vocational  placement  of  children 
and  adults  is  fostered  by  special  organizations 
and  by  branches  of  other  institutions. 

Homes:  There  are  more  than  thirty  homes 
for  the  aged  in  Chicago.  Some  of  them  are  open 
to  applicants  in  general,  while  others  admit  only 
special  sects  or  persons  of  foreign  birth.  De- 
pendent defectives  receive  special  consideration 
by  many  organizations.  The  care  and  relief  of 
the  destitute  are  made  the  objects  of  four  spe- 
cial institutions.  There  are  eighteen  important 
lodging-houses  and  shelters.  There  are  five 
homes  for  men  and  over  twenty  for  women. 

Civic  Betterment:  General  civic  better- 
ment is  the  aim  of  about  twenty  important  clubs 
in  Chicago.  In  detail,  this  includes  the  better- 
ment of  housing  conditions,  diminution  of  pollu- 
tion of  water  supply  and  objectionable  odors. 

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abatement  of  nuisances,  promotion  of  efficiency 
in  the  administration  of  local  governments  and 
civil  sen'ice  laws,  and  the  development  of  edu- 
cational, philanthropic,  reform,  relief  work,  and 
sanitary  matters.  In  special  lines  of  civic 
betterment,  there  are  ten  organizations  seeking 
improvement  of  physical  conditions,  seven  for 
public  culture,  three  for  public  health,  and 
eighteen  for  public  welfare. 

Legal,  Aid  :  Aside  from  the  courts  with  spe- 
cial branches,  there  are  some  eighteen  societies 
which  have  for  their  object  the  enforcement  of 
laws  enacted  to  protect  children  and  others. 
Many  of  these  societies  furnish  legal  advice  and 
free  legal  service  to  protect  against  injustice. 

Medical  Aid  :  In  addition  to  the  official  de- 
partments of  the  city  and  coimty  to  enforce 
ordinances  of  the  state  and  city  on  sanitation 
measures,  to  prevent  spread  of  contagion  or  like 
matters,  and  to  furnish  hospital,  ambulance,  and 
dental  facilities  in  general,  the  field  of  medical 
aid  is  covered  by  twenty-five  important  free 
private  dispensaries  and  by  dispensaries  in  hospi- 
tals. There  are  about  fifteen  emergency  hos- 
pitals. There  are  several  hospitals  for  infectious 
and  contagious  diseases,  for  incurables,  and 
for  inebriates  and  drug  users.     There  are  ten 

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maternity  hospitals  and  nine  convalescent  homes. 
The  social  service  work  for  the  sick  is  covered  hy 
about  a  dozen  hospitals  and  dispensaries,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  numerous  institutions  for  cripples, 
defectives,  and  epileptics,  as  well  as  societies  for 
mental  hygiene  and  psychopathic  institutes. 
Nursing  service  for  the  poor  is  promoted  by  at 
least  twelve  institutions.  Treatment  and  care 
of  persons  afflicted  with  tuberculosis  are  made 
a  specialty  by  twelve  organizations. 

Moral  Reform:  Humane  societies,  protec- 
tive associations,  and  societies  to  promote  tem- 
perance nimiber  at  least  twenty-five.  They 
include  those  to  prevent  cruelty  to  children  and 
animals,  to  advocate  high  standards  of  private 
and  public  morality,  to  suppress  commercialized 
vice,  and  to  promote  temperance  in  the  use  of 
tobacco  and  intoxicating  liquors. 

Neighborhood  Work  :  There  are  numerous 
assembly  halls  owned  by  communities.  There 
are  about  forty  churches  and  religious  organiza- 
tions that  maintain  as  their  chief  object  the 
furnishing  of  social  activities  for  the  neighbor- 
hood in  church  buildings  or  other  neighborhood 
headquarters,  or  employ  regularly  paid  social 
workers.  Civic  organizations,  developed  by 
communities  themselves  for  neighborhood  benefit. 

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number  about  ten.  Settlement  ^vork  is  carried 
on  from  about  seventeen  speeial  centers  with 
resident  workers  and  by  a  large  number  of  work- 
ers not  resident  at  the  centers. 

Public  and  Private  Agencies  :  *  In  the  city 
of  Chicago  the  public  agencies  for  social  better- 
ment embrace  those  of  the  state,  county,  and 
municipality  in  the  field  of  public  philanthropy. 
Recreation  is  furnished  systematically  by  munici- 
pal authorities  in  parks  and  playgrounds  and 
by  a  large  number  of  private  clubs  which 
establish  outings  and  camps.  Rehef  and  family 
rehabilitation  are  carried  on  by  at  least  one  hun- 
dred private  organizations  and  conferences. 
Prominent  among  these  are  the  Society  of  St. 
Vincent  de  Paul,  under  Roman  Catholic  aus- 
pices, with  its  numerous  parish  conferences  to 
visit  and  aid  the  poor  and  to  undertake  charitable 
work,  the  Juvenile  Court,  and  the  United  Chari- 
ties. The  Association  of  Commerce  of  Chicago 
has  a  special  investigating  committee  M^hich  was 
organized  about  five  years  ago  at  the  suggestion 
of  the  mayor  of  the  city,  to  classify  organizations 
to  which  subscriptions  could  be  made  without  fear 
of  wasteful  duplication  or  failure  to  make  right 
use  of  well-tested  experience  in  management  and 
expenditure    of    funds.     About    two    hundred 

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charitable  organizations  in  the  city  have  received 
the  endorsement  of  this  committee,  and  the  num- 
ber is  increasing.  The  list  is  annually  published 
by  the  association.  Benefit  societies  to  aid 
widows  and  orphans  of  members,  and  to  care  for 
the  incapacitated  members,  are  numerous.  There 
are  many  special  loan  and  saving  societies,  organ- 
ized to  eliminate  the  loan  shark  evil. 

The  volume  of  work  done  by  these  organiza- 
tions can  best  be  appreciated  by  considering  a 
few  of  them  individually: 

The  Children's  Memorial  Hospital:  This 
hospital  was  founded  in  1884  as  the  Maurice 
Porter  Memorial  Hospital,  and  incorporated  ten 
years  later  under  the  present  name.  Its  purpose 
is  to  give  free  medical  and  other  care  to  children 
under  twelve  years  of  age  not  suffering  from 
contagious  or  incurable  disease. 

The  original  hospital  building,  with  the  land 
on  which  it  is  situated,  was  donated  for  the  pur- 
pose mentioned.  Subsequently  four  other  hos- 
pital buildings  have  been  donated.  The  hospital 
has  a  capacity  of  175  beds,  of  which  fifteen  are 
permanently  endowed,  fourteen  supported  as 
memorial  beds,  and  twenty-seven  as  other  sup- 
ported beds. 

In  1916,  2,550  patients  were  cared  for  in  the 

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LITTLE  GIRLS  AT  WORK 
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THE  CHICAGO  HOME  FOR  THE  FRIENDLESS 
Hundreds  of  worthy  women  and  girls  are  helped  here  every  year. 


Summary    of    Philanthropic    Work 

Hospital,  32,567  in  the  Out-Patient  Depart- 
ment, and  5,035  in  the  Social  Service  Depart- 
ment. 

In  connection  with  the  Hospital  there  is  a 
Training  School  for  Nurses,  and  a  post-graduate 
course  for  physicians. 

In  addition  to  the  usual  hospital  care  the 
children  are  also  given  instruction  by  specially 
trained  kindergartners.  The  Out-Patient  De- 
partment and  Social  Service  Department,  giv- 
ing free  medical  advice  and  nursing  supervision 
in  the  home,  are  essential  parts  of  the  hospital 
work. 

The  internal  management  of  the  hospital  is 
under  the  supervision  of  the  Auxiliary  Board 
of  thirty-two  members.  A  Social  Service  Com- 
mittee of  thirty  members  takes  charge  of,  and 
practically  supports,  the  work  of  the  Social 
Service  Department.  The  Junior  Auxiliary  of 
115  members  assists  with  the  kindergarten  work 
and  provides  for  the  entertainment  and  pleasure 
of  the  children. 

The  Hospital  is  supported  by  a  small  endow- 
ment, annual  contributions,  and  some  help  from 
the  city.  Its  disbursements  amount  to  about 
$125,000  a  year.  $10,000  endows  a  bed  in  per- 
petuity and  $500  supports  a  bed  for  one  year. 

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II  u  111  an     W'tllai-c     Work     in     Chicago 

The  Juvenile  Court;  Among  the  gov- 
ernmental institutions  which  warrant  special 
consideration  is  the  Juvenile  Court.  The  juris- 
diction of  the  court  extends  to  cases  brought 
before  it  under  the  act  to  regulate  treatment  and 
control  of  delinquent,  dependent,  and  neglected 
children.  When  the  parents  are  sober  and 
decent,  but  too  poor  to  care  properly  for  their 
children,  the  problem  is  purely  one  of  securing 
aid,  either  in  their  own  homes  (Funds  to  Par- 
ents) or  in  institutions,  as  seems  best.  When 
neglect  is  found,  as  in  cases  where  there  is  degra- 
dation, drunkenness,  or  immorality,  the  decision 
is  again  a  judicial  function,  and  the  children  are 
removed  from  the  custody  of  the  parents  and 
committed  to  institutions  as  a  measure  of  disci- 
pline and  precaution.  In  addition  to  dependent 
and  delinquent  children,  those  found  to  be  habit- 
ual truants  or  incorrigible  in  school  are  brought 
before  the  Juvenile  Court  to  be  committed  to 
the  Chicago  Parental  School.  This  work  is  car- 
ried on  as  an  aid  to  the  City's  educational  author- 
ities. 

In  this  work  the  City  of  Chicago  and  the 
County  of  Cook  are  pioneers.  The  Court  as 
organized  includes  a  Judge,  Assistant  Judge,  a 
Chief  Probation  Officer,  an  Assistant  Probation 

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Officer,  and  heads  of  various  departments.  There 
are  81  county  probation  officers  and  63  city 
police  probation  officers.  On  diiFerent  days  there 
are  heard  pension,  truant,  delinquent  girl,  and 
delinquent  boy  cases. 

There  is  connected  ^vith  this  court  a  com- 
plaint department ;  a  delinquent  boy  department, 
in  charge  of  all  delinquent  boys  on  probation; 
a  child  welfare  department,  for  placing  children 
in  families;  a  dependent  children's  department, 
in  charge  of  all  cases  of  dependent  children  on 
probation  and  dehnquent  girls  on  probation  in 
their  homes;  a  juvenile  psychopathic  institute 
laboratory,  to  test  subnormal  children;  a  juve- 
nile detention  home,  for  the  care  and  custody  of 
children  until  permanent  provision  can  be  made 
for  their  care;  and  a  pension  department.  The 
pension  department  has  charge  of  all  applica- 
tions for  funds  and  supervision  of  families  re- 
ceiving funds. 

"Funds  to  Parents"  are  administered  jointly 
by  court  and  county  agent,  after  full  investiga- 
tion, to  indigent  mothers  with  children  under 
fourteen  years  of  age,  whose  husbands  are  dead 
or  totally  incapacitated  for  work,  provided  the 
mother  is  a  fit  person  to  make  a  home  for  the 
children.    The  donation  in  no  case  exceeds  $60 

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a  month,  and  is  hased  on  the  estimate  of  a  dieti- 
tian who  considers  the  age  and  health  of  each 
member  of  the  family.  A  trained  visitor  from 
the  department  guides  the  mother  in  the  training 
of  her  children  and  the  expenditure  of  her  al- 
lowance. 

The  United  Charities  of  Chicago:  This 
organization  was  formed  in  1909  by  a  union  of 
the  Chicago  Relief  and  Aid  Society  (incorpo- 
rated in  1857)  and  the  Chicago  Bureau  of 
Charities  (incorporated  in  1894).  Its  objects 
are  to  provide  a  permanent,  efficient,  and  prac- 
tical mode  of  administering  and  distributing  pri- 
vate charities  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  to  establish 
and  carry  out  the  necessary  means  for  obtaining 
full  and  reliable  information  regarding  the  con- 
dition and  wants  of  the  poor  of  the  city,  and  to 
put  into  practical  operation  the  best  system  of 
relieving  and  preventing  want  and  pauperism. 
It  is  non-sectarian,  and  is  supported  by  volun- 
tary contributions.  During  the  fiscal  year  end- 
ing September  30,  1916,  it  disbursed  $315,496. 
It  furnished  help  to  over  14,000  families,  which 
included  about  66,000  people.  Under  its  direc- 
tion, during  the  same  year,  its  force  of  trained 
workers  made  about  50,000  visits  of  investiga- 
tion and  relief. 

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The  institution  secures  temporary  and  per- 
manent employment,  medical  aid,  hospital  and 
institutional  care,  and  gives  relief  and  legal  aid. 

To  accomplish  this  work  there  are  maintained 
the  general  administration  office  and  eleven  dis- 
trict offices,  with  a  corps  of  workers  in  each,  in 
different  parts  of  the  city.  Its  work  is  much 
wider  than  collecting  and  distributing  money 
for  the  poor.  It  operates  or  conducts  emergency 
relief  operations,  family  rehabilitation  service, 
country  outings,  several  summer  camps,  a  sum- 
mer hospital  for  convalescents,  a  nursery  and 
training  school,  a  tuberculosis  preventorium  in 
the  country  for  children,  a  free  ice  fund  in  the 
city,  a  social  service  registration  bureau,  and 
many  other  subsidiary  adjuncts.  Its  most  im- 
portant work,  however,  is  not  that  of  giving 
relief,  although  that  is  considered  necessary,  but, 
in  addition,  getting  at  the  causes  of  poverty,  and 
trying  to  uproot  them  through  its  Department  of 
Social  Welfare  Promotion. 

Chicago  Home  for  the  Friendless:  This 
institution  is  located  on  Vincennes  Avenue,  and 
overlooks  Washington  Park.  It  was  founded 
under  charter  in  1859,  with  the  object  and  pur- 
pose of  relieving,  aiding,  and  providing  a  tem- 
porary home  for  friendless  and  indigent  women 

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and  children.  The  institution  promotes  hoth 
relief  and  remedial  work.  In  a  measure  it  is 
financial  sponsor  for  the  Home  School  and  the 
Burr  Mission.  It  is  supported  by  gifts  and  in- 
vested funds  which  have  been  donated.  Hun- 
dreds of  worthy  women  and  girls  have  been 
helped  every  year  to  places  of  employment  or 
have  been  assisted  to  return  to  their  homes  or 
friends. 

It  receives  children  whose  parents  are  sick 
or  out  of  work,  and  keeps  them  until  the  family 
home  can  be  reestablished.  Worthy  destitute 
women  are  given  shelter  until  work  is  secured, 
as  well  as  those  convalescing  after  discharge 
from  hospitals,  if  they  are  able  to  wait  on  them- 
selves. Aged  women  are  received  temporarily 
while  arranging  for  permanent  homes.  Infants 
under  one  year  are  not  accepted  unless  accom- 
panied by  their  mothers.  Boys  must  be  under 
twelve  years  of  age.  During  1916,  there  were 
cared  for  about  278  women  and  1,149  children. 
The  average  of  families  per  month  was  238.  The 
institution  has  a  department  for  old  ladies,  and 
one  for  industrial  girls.  When  advisable,  girls 
over  twelve  years  of  age  are  put  into  the  indus- 
trial class  and  are  taught  sewing,  cooking,  and 
other  domestic  work.    The  length  of  stay  of  each 

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imnate  is  determined  by  the  Board  of  Managers 
through  its  committees.  Infirmary  work  for 
children  is  comprehensive,  and  extends  to  con- 
tagious diseases.  The  expenditure  for  the  Home 
during  1914  was  about  $50,000;  for  the  Home 
School,  about  $1,600;  and  for  the  Burr  Mission, 
about  $3,000.  The  Home  receives  women  and 
children  from  nearly  fifty  other  charitable  organ- 
izations. The  institution  has  been  fortunate  in 
receiving  the  good  will  and  generous  support  of 
public-spirited  citizens  of  Chicago,  as  well  as 
the  confidence  and  help  of  the  public  in  general. 
The  corporation  has  always  been  highly  favored 
in  receiving  devoted  service  from  able  and  will- 
ing persons,  who  have  consecrated  their  powers 
to  carrying  out  successfully  the  objects  of  the 
home. 

Departments  of  Public  Welfare:  The 
Department  of  Public  Welfare  of  the  City  of 
Chicago  is  a  clearing  house  for  information  on 
subjects  such  as  general  charitable  relief,  insti- 
tutional care,  etc.  It  directs  inquiries  to  the 
proper  agency;  collects  information  relating  to 
working  conditions  and  unemployment;  gives 
practical  relief  to  the  unemployed;  obtains  in- 
formation on  actual  living  conditions,  facilities 
for  recreation,  and  causes  of  vagrancy,  crime,  and 

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poverty;  and  makes  recommendation  to  the  City 
Council  for  ordinances  to  secure  the  practical 
betterment  of  such  conditions. 

The  Cook  County  Bureau  of  Public  Welfare 
has  a  division  devoted  to  corrections  and  one  to 
children's  institutions.  The  former  investigates 
records  of  boys  between  the  ages  of  17  and  21 
in  the  County  Jail,  submits  facts  to  the  trial 
judge,  to  aid  him  in  determining  the  kind  of 
boy  with  whom  he  has  to  deal  and  renders  services 
to  boys  and  members  of  their  families.  The  lat- 
ter investigates  circumstances  of  the  families  of 
dependent  children  who  have  been  committed  to 
industrial  or  manual  training  schools,  ^vith  a 
view  to  returning  such  children  to  normal  family 
life  in  their  own  or  other  families. 

In  viewing  philanthropic  work  in  Chicago  it 
is  found  that  over  four  hundred  organizations 
and  agencies,  not  including  their  adjuncts,  are 
engaged  in  systematic  efforts  for  the  betterment 
of  human  conditions  through  benevolent  means. 
One  hundred  and  ninety-seven  organizations,  en- 
dorsed by  the  Chicago  Association  of  Commerce, 
expend  annually  over  $6,750,000  in  their  upkeep 
and  for  charitable  piu-poses.  It  consequently 
follows  that  the  total  amount  so  expended  is 

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much  greater  than  that  sum  and  is  more  than 
sufficient  to  show  that  the  people  of  Chicago  are 
unusually  wide  awake  and  energetic  in  humani- 
tarian work. 


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PHILANTHROPIC    WORK 
OF    RELIGIOUS    ORGANIZATIONS 


Chapter  VIII 
PHILANTHROPIC    WORK   OF    RELI- 
GIOUS   ORGANIZATIONS 

IV/rUCH  of  the  humanitarian  work  done  by 
religious  organizations  is  primarily  for 
denominational  extension;  nevertheless  there  is 
coupled  with  it  a  great  amount  of  such  work 
outside  of  the  circumference  of  creed. 

Episcopalians:  The  institutional  work  of 
the  Episcopal  Church,  Diocese  of  Chicago,  is 
covered  by  the  Cathedral  on  Washington  Boule- 
vard and  by  other  institutions  which  derive  their 
support  from  the  chm'ch,  the  parishes,  the  mis- 
sions ;  and  necessarily,  ultimately  from  the  mem- 
bers. They  are  exponents  of  the  recognition  of 
the  spirit  of  charity  and  benevolence  by  the  mem- 
bers of  the  church.  The  Cathedral  was  erected 
in  1861,  and  it  was  the  first  attempt  to  establish 
one  in  the  United  States.  The  staff  of  the 
Cathedral  and  those  of  the  other  institutions  ex- 
tend their  aid  to  the  inmates  of  city  and  county 
institutions.  The  annual  expenditure  for  the 
support  of  St.  Luke's  Hospital  is  about  $325,000, 
and  that  for  the  other  institutions,  exclusive  of 

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the  Seminar}',  amomits  to  about  $93,000  per 
annum. 

Many  of  the  direst  cases  of  distress  treated 
at  the  Cathedral  arise  out  of  the  City  Missions 
work.  Persons  released  from  hospitals  or  penal 
institutions  are  helped  to  get  a  new  start;  fre- 
quently they  are  fitted  out  with  decent  cloth- 
ing, or  placed  in  employment;  not  seldom  they 
are  fed  and  housed  until  they  can  gain  a  foot- 
hold. In  many  cases  the  families  or  young 
children  of  these  unfortunates,  left  suddenly 
helpless,  become  charges  upon  the  Cathedral  re- 
sources. Meanwhile,  these  people,  broken  in 
spirit  or  health,  often  in  a  desperate  and  danger- 
ous frame  of  mind,  are  subject  to  the  helpful 
ministrations  of  a  Christian  church.  Just  here 
is  one  of  the  advantages  of  combining  the  City 
Missions  work  with  that  of  the  Cathedral,  en- 
abling the  priests  and  sisters  to  "follow  up"  the 
cases  encountered  in  hospital  or  prison  by  direct- 
ing their  charges  to  the  Cathedral  where  the 
same  care  and  sympathy  may  be  continued  after 
their  release,  with  results  more  lasting  and  bene- 
ficial than  are  possible  in  the  average  institution 
open  to  such  persons. 

The  Sisters  of  St.  Mary's  Mission  House 
receive,  investigate,  and  provide  for  most  of  the 

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cases  of  need  and  distress  coming  to  the  Cathe- 
dral. The  Mission  House  organizations  now 
operative  are  the  Mothers'  Meeting,  a  work-time 
followed  hy  a  social  hour,  for  all  the  women  of 
the  district;  St.  Monica's  Guild,  for  married 
women  communicants;  Girls'  Friendly  Society; 
Girl  Scouts,  and  Industrial  School,  for  children 
from  three  to  sixteen;  the  Day  Nursery,  open 
from  7  A.  M.  to  6  p.  m.  (a  charge  of  ten  cents 
is  made  for  those  able  to  pay;  at  least  half  of 
the  children  are  received  free)  ;  free  Kinder- 
garten daily  except  Saturday,  from  9  a.  m.  to 
noon. 

The  Sisters  have  received  authorization  from 
the  Bishop  to  solicit  subscriptions  for  the  erec- 
tion of  a  House  of  Refuge  for  young  women  dis- 
charged from  correctional  or  penal  institutions. 
If  there  can  be  said  to  be  one  need  more  urgent 
than  all  the  rest  of  those  indicated,  it  is  this  of 
providing  a  temporary  haven  for  unfortunate 
girls,  many  of  them  first  offenders,  where  they 
may  receive  sympathetic  care  and  counsel  and 
an  opportunity  to  readjust  themselves  before 
again  facing  the  struggle  in  which  they  have 
already  suffered  one  defeat.  A  plain  building, 
so  equipped  that  such  girls  might  be  made  use- 
ful and  receive  a  certain  amount  of  remunerative 

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work,  such  as  a  small  lamidry,  would  be  a  wel- 
come and  much  needed  addition  to  the  pres- 
ent plant  and  would  yield  gratifying  results. 

The  work  of  the  Sisters  is  not  parochial  but 
diocesan. 

The  St.  Mary's  Home  for  Children  is  con- 
ducted by  the  Sisters  of  St.  Mary  for  the  train- 
ing and  care  of  those  children  whose  parents  or 
parent  cannot  properly  care  for  their  children 
in  their  own  homes,  the  nurture  and  education  of 
orphans  or  half -orphans ;  also  the  guardianship 
of  children  committed  to  the  Corporation  by 
the  State.  The  capacity  is  about  140.  The  sum- 
mer home  at  Kenosha,  Wisconsin,  was  organized 
in  1895.  It  is  a  children's  charity,  for  girls 
only,  conducted  under  church  authority  and 
surrounded  with  chui-ch  influences.  A  well- 
equipped  Domestic  Science  School  has  been  in 
successful  operation  for  a  year. 

The  Providence  Day  Nursery  is  a  day  nurs- 
ery for  children  of  working  mothers.  A  fee  of 
from  five  to  ten  cents  a  day  is  asked  of  those 
who  are  able  to  pay,  but  many  children  are  cared 
for  without  charge.  It  has  no  endo\vment,  and 
depends  for  support  entirely  upon  contributions. 
It  was  opened  in  1909;  it  provides  a  creche,  a 
sewing    school    on    Saturday    morning,    and    a 

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Sunday  School.  Its  present  capacity  is  about 
fifty  children.  There  is  maintained  at  this  nurs- 
ery a  station  of  the  Infant  Welfare  Society,  with 
a  nurse  in  daily  attendance,  and  a  physician  twice 
a  week  for  clinics.  It  has  a  roof  garden,  equipped 
with  swings,  flower  boxes,  and  furniture,  and  has 
an  outdoor  playground.  In  connection  with  the 
nursery  is  a  House  of  Happiness,  planned  as  a 
children's  settlement  for  older  children,  where 
sewing  and  cooking  classes  for  girls,  and  gym- 
nasium work  for  boys,  are  carried  on. 

The  Chicago  Home  for  Boys  is  for  depend- 
ent boys  of  Chicago  between  the  ages  of  six  and 
fourteen  years.  It  cares  for  about  132  boys,  of 
whom  41  are  cared  for  free  of  charge.  The 
boys  attend  the  neighboring  public  grammar 
school  and  high  school.  This  home  has  a  camp 
operated  at  Blue  Lake,  Michigan,  which  is  occu- 
pied from  July  to  September  by  all  of  the  boys. 

The  Church  Home  for  Aged  Persons  was 
established  in  1890,  to  supply  the  need  of  a  real 
home  for  aged  persons  who  are  no  longer  able 
to  support  themselves.  The  accommodations  are 
sufficient  to  care  for  a  family  of  75,  not  includ- 
ing officers  and  attendants. 

The  Cathedral  Shelter  work  began  in  the 
early  winter  of  the  year  1914,  for  the  purpose  of 

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caring  for  young  men  and  boys  sent  from  the 
municipal  houses,  and  others  sent  through  the 
city  parishes.  The  reclaimed  individual  is  taken 
into  the  shelter,  put  on  liis  honor,  clothed  and 
fed,  lodged,  and  put  to  work. 

St.  Luke's  Hospital  was  founded  in  1864, 
through  the  efforts  of  the  rector  of  Grace 
Church.  It  is  maintained  from  an  income  from 
an  endowment  fund,  fees  of  patients,  and  con- 
tributions from  churches  and  individuals.  Its 
capacity  is  to  be  extended  to  cover  about  1,000 
patients.  During  the  fiscal  year  ending  Septem- 
ber 30,  1916,  the  cases  admitted  free,  with  the 
many  thousand  receiving  free  treatment  on 
patron  days  brought  the  nimiber  of  free  treat- 
ments to  51,640. 

Pkesbyteriaxs  :  The  Presb\i:ery  of  Chi- 
cago, through  its  Extension  Board,  gives  special 
attention  to  maintaining  and  promoting  Home 
Mission  work.  It  not  only  interests  itself  in 
the  centers  of  population,  but  follows  those  per- 
sons who  go  therefrom. 

The  Chicago  Christian  Industrial  League  is 
an  affiliated  institution.  It  was  organized  in 
November,  1909,  to  help  solve  the  unemploy- 
ment problem  in  a  practical  way  and  primarily 
to  give  another  chance  to  the  man  who  has  lost  his 

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chance  to  make  good.  From  absolutely  nothing 
it  has  grown  until  now  it  operates  sixteen 
different  agencies  and  institutions,  employing 
twenty-nine  wagons  and  teams,  three  auto  trucks, 
and  three  pushcarts,  and  helping  more  than 
1,000  men  a  year  to  help  themselves.  It  is  in- 
corporated under  the  laws  of  the  state  of  Illi- 
nois and  is  controlled  by  a  board  of  directors 
consisting  of  fifteen  successful  business  and  pro- 
fessional men.  The  simimary  of  its  work  for 
the  year  1916  is  as  follows: 

Free    Lodgings    (Popular    Hotel   and    Hall).. 65,407 

Cheap   Lodgings    (Popular   Hotel) 97,455 

Free  Meals   (Mission  breakfasts  at  Popular  Hotel)....  116,555 

Five-cent   Meals    84,790 

Days'    Work    Given 37,932 

Garments  Distributed   160,240 

Attendance   at   Services 74,821 

Number  professing  conversion 1,225 

Men   treated  at  Dispensary 1,761 

Outside  employment  found  for  men 1,430 

The  five-story  Popular  Hotel,  with  its  ac- 
commodations for  the  Rescue  Mission  and  for 
the  housing  of  350  men,  was  opened  September 
22,  1914,  at  884  South  State  Street.  Here,  for 
a  dime,  or  its  equivalent  in  work,  needy  men  are 
given  shower  baths,  a  bath  towel,  a  light,  airy 
bedroom  ^^ath  a  clean,  new  bed,  steam  heat,  ex- 
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cellent  service,  the  use  of  recreation  and  reading 
rooms,  companionship,  the  use  of  a  washing 
room  and  automatic  drier  for  washing  and  dry- 
ing clothes,  a  locker  for  personal  effects,  medi- 
cal treatment  if  necessary,  and  religious  services 
in  the  adjoining  room.  Few,  even  of  those  who 
have  seen  the  hotel  and  its  accommodations, 
realize  how  completely  the  industrial  plants 
fortify  the  work  of  the  Rescue  Mission  and 
largely  decrease  its  operating  expense.  Rescue 
missions  of  the  size  of  this  one  are  usually  run 
at  an  annual  expense  of  from  $8,000  to  $10,000. 
The  expenses  here  are  only  $3,500.  When  the 
Popular  Hotel  was  fitted  up,  many  thought  its 
splendid  work  could  not  be  supplemented  for 
some  time,  but  as  the  months  of  winter  passed  and 
the  need  of  the  homeless  and  unemployed  became 
more  acute,  the  use  of  the  old  St.  Caroline's 
Court  Hotel  at  117  North  Elizabeth  Street  was 
offered.  It  was  opened  as  a  "flop,"  or  homeless 
man's  free  hotel,  and  in  three  months  sheltered 
16,275  men  who  would  ordinarily  have  been 
obliged  to  sleep  in  alleys  and  doorways,  but  who 
received  bed,  bath,  and  breakfast  free.  It  was 
given  up  in  1915,  and  in  its  place  buildings  at 
the  corner  of  State  and  Taylor  have  been  utilized. 

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The  institutions  for  carrying  on  the  work 
present  a  bewildering  array  of  activities  in  their 
endeavor  to  minister  to  the  varied  needs  with 
which  they  are  confronted.  The  institutional 
churches  and  missions  resemble  these  settle- 
ments in  many  respects  and  in  some  cases  it  is 
almost  impossible  to  draw  a  line  of  demarcation 
between  them. 

During  the  past  pear  (1915-1916)  in  this 
Presbyter}^  work  has  been  carried  on  among 
Italians,  Bohemians,  Hungarians,  Persians, 
Hollanders,  Chinese,  Slavonians,  Servians, 
Syrians,  Poles,  Belgians,  jNIexicans  and  other 
Spanish-speaking  people. 

The  movement  for  interdenominational  co- 
operation known  as  the  Cooperative  Council  of 
City  Missions  originated  with  the  Church  Ex- 
tension Board  seven  years  ago,  and  has  justified 
its  existence.  Five  denominations,  Methodists, 
Presbyterians,  Baptists,  Congregationalists,  and 
Disciples  are  each  represented  by  five  members. 
In  this  practical  federation  the  denominations 
are  working  concertedly  in  locating  churches, 
evangelizing  foreign  populations  of  the  city,  and 
adjusting  Christian  work  in  fields  where  changes 
of  population  make  readjustment  necessary. 

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The  institutional  work  is  wide.  Its  character 
is  shown  by  consideration  of  the  following  agen- 
cies at  work : 

Christopher  House  Settlement,  at  1618  Ful- 
lerton  Avenue,  was  established  in  1905  to 
provide  a  social,  religious,  and  educational  center. 
It  maintains  a  kindergarten,  modified  milk  sta- 
tion, library,  classes  in  English,  sewing,  cooking, 
home  hygiene,  music,  basket  and  hammock  weav- 
ing, pottery,  drawing,  hammered  brass  and 
copper,  rug-making,  stenciling,  millinery,  gym- 
nastics, manual  training;  it  has  clubs  with 
athletic,  literary,  and  social  aims;  promotes  lec- 
tures, concerts,  and  socials. 

Erie  Chapel  Institute,  at  1347  West  Erie 
Street,  was  established  by  the  Erie  Chapel  Pres- 
byterian Church  to  promote  the  civic,  social,  and 
religious  welfare  of  the  community.  Maintains 
a  kindergarten,  social  clubs,  athletic,  English, 
citizenship,  craft,  and  sewing  classes,  vacation 
Bible  school,  stereopticon  lectures,  relief  depart- 
ment, summer  camp.  Social  worker  also  engaged 
for  part  time  on  boys'  work. 

First  Presbyterian  Chm'ch,  at  41st  Street 
and  Grand  Boulevard,  employs  two  social  work- 
ers for  entire  time.  It  maintains  twenty  gym- 
nasium classes  a  week,  game  room,   Saturday 

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night  entertainments,  clubs,  Boy  Scouts,  Camp 
Fire  Girls,  and  sewing  classes. 

Fourth  Presbyterian  Chui'ch,  at  Lincoln 
Park  Boulevard  and  Chestnut  Street,  employs 
sixteen  social  workers,  who  give  their  whole  time 
to  this  work.  It  maintains  gymnasium,  kinder- 
garten, domestic  science  room,  club  rooms, 
library,  many  clubs  and  classes  other  than  reli- 
gious, and  has  a  large  cooperative  work  with 
social  agencies. 

Second  Presbyterian  Church,  at  Michigan 
Avenue  and  East  20th  Street,  gives  general  re- 
lief and  maintains  clubs  for  boys  and  girls.  Also, 
at  Moseley  Chapel,  2539  Calumet  Avenue,  it 
maintains  an  industrial  school,  gymnasium 
classes,  boys'  clubs,  and  girls'  clubs. 

Bohemian  Settlement  House,  at  1831  South 
Racine  Avenue,  does  work  which  compares  very 
favorably  with,  and  in  many  respects  excels,  that 
of  any  social  settlement  of  its  size  in  the  city. 
In  its  150  weekly  activities  there  is  an  attendance 
of  over  15,000  each  month.  The  Head  Resi- 
dent has  associated  with  her  a  staff  of  five  full- 
time  and  six  part-time  workers,  while  about  100 
volunteers  give  a  portion  of  time  each  week  as 
teachers,  club  leaders,  visitors,  etc.  This  work 
is  maintained  jointly  with  the  Woman's  Pres- 

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byterial  Society.  Through  the  generosity  of  one 
of  the  residents  an  addition  has  been  made  to 
the  building,  to  house  the  boys'  clubs,  of  which 
there  are  30,  with  a  membership  of  500.  This 
is  twice  the  number  of  one  year  ago,  and  typi- 
fies the  advance  made  in  all  the  departments  of 
the  work. 

Olivet  Institute,  at  444  Blackhawk  Street, 
completed  in  1915  a  quarter  century  of  service. 
The  year  just  passed  was  marked  by  enlarged 
activity  in  all  of  its  eight  branches.  To  present 
a  picture  which  is  adequate  and  fair  to  the 
thought  and  endeavor  of  the  service  is  a  difficult 
task,  because  Olivet  is  an  institution  both  large 
and  of  varied  activities.  During  1916,  twenty- 
two  workers  have  been  in  continuous  residence 
and  fourteen  for  part  time,  and  276  volunteer 
workers  have  assisted  each  month;  the  religious 
department  has  62  organizations;  2,511  meetings 
have  been  held,  with  a  total  attendance  of  131,- 
422;  in  the  educational  department  31  persons 
assisted  in  conducting  35  groups,  with  an  enroll- 
ment of  1,523,  and  an  aggregate  attendance  of 
45,598 ;  the  musical  department  enrolls  356,  with 
an  aggregate  attendance  for  1916  of  10,137;  200 
meetings  were  held  in  five  of  the  factories  of  the 
neighborhood;  the  Advice  and  Aid  Department 

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has  assisted  2.)0  families,  representing  about 
1,500  individuals.  The  INIedical  Department  has 
treated  1,075  cases;  the  Athletic  Department  has 
enrolled  800  persons;  1,134  persons  enjoyed  the 
privileges  of  Olivet  Camp. 

In  caring  for  the  social  and  physical  needs  of 
the  community  there  were  1,143  meetings  held 
during  1916  under  the  auspices  of  the  28  organi- 
zations which  are  devoted  to  the  social  and  ath- 
letic features  of  the  work.  This  department 
aims  successfully  to  supply  the  young  people 
with  the  legitimate  means  of  recreation  and  fel- 
lowship without  questionable  associations. 

Olivet  Institute  owns  an  entire  square  oppo- 
site its  present  quarters  on  Blackhawk  Street,  on 
which  it  is  the  purpose  to  build  an  adequate  and 
practical  plant  more  efficiently  to  meet  the  de- 
mands of  the  gi'owing  work.  For  some  time  the 
activities  of  the  Institute  have  been  carried  on  in 
15  different  buildings,  and  the  new  structure, 
already  planned,  will  house  all  these  depart- 
ments. It  will  probably  cover  two-thirds  of  the 
square,  and  will  be  begun  as  soon  as  the  means 
can  be  secured. 

A  total  of  744  basket  dinners  was  distrib- 
uted during  the  holiday  season — Thanksgiving, 
Christmas,   and    New   Year's.    More  than   900 

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families  and  over  6,200  individuals  were  aided 
with  money,  groceries,  or  clothing,  while  several 
hundred  persons  were  referred  to  the  charitable 
associations  and  the  county  agent,  and  over  a 
thousand  were  reported  as  seeking  advice  and 
counsel  of  our  workers. 

The  large  amount  of  relief  work  enumerated 
is  only  a  fraction  of  that  done  by  Presbyterian 
churches  and  missions,  and  was  made  possible 
by  the  generosity  of  interested  churches  and  in- 
dividuals. Over  fifty  churches  and  more  than 
four  hundred  individuals  were  reported  as  assist- 
ing in  the  work  above  referred  to. 

Methodists:  The  Chicago  Home  Mission- 
ary and  Church  Extension  Society  is  the  agency 
for  denominational  work,  with  humanitarian 
work  as  an  incident  thereto. 

Two  new  movements  have  been  entered  upon, 
the  Methodist  Mutual  Aid  Union  and  the  Res- 
cue Mission  work.  Through  the  former  it  is 
hoped  to  respond  more  adequately  to  the  needs 
of  the  poor  in  the  densely  crowded  sections  of 
the  city.  The  plan  is  to  collect  waste  material, 
such  as  cast-off  clothing  and  furniture,  gather 
them  to  one  center  and  employ  those  who  are 
living  below  the  poverty  line  and  out  of  work 
in   the  task   of   repairing  this   material.     The 

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Rescue  Mission  operates  under  the  principle  that 
it  is  not  always  easy  to  make  an  effective  moral 
and  spiritual  appeal  when  the  body  shivers  with 
cold  and  suffers  with  the  pangs  of  hunger.  Great 
care  has  to  be  exercised  in  this  social  and  physical 
ministry,  but  the  work  is  in  the  hands  of  an 
expert  who  has  assistants  who  are  almost  equally 
skilled.  The  following  is  a  summary  of  the  Avork 
done  in  the  Rescue  Mission  for  the  thirteen 
months  ending  December  31,  1916: 

Meetings    Held    42S 

Number    in    Attendance 47,505 

Number  of  Men  who  indicated  a  desire  for  a  better  life 

and  came  to  the   place  of  prayer 1,391 

Number  of  Men  availing  themselves  of  mission  shelter 
and    sleeping   accommodations    on    the    chairs    and 

benches  in   the   mission  hall 43,336 

Number  of  Hungry  helped  to  food ftS.llS 

Number  of  Pieces  of  Clothing  given   to   men,   women, 

and  children   3,028 

Number   of   Visits    made    in   homes    of    the    poor,    hos- 
pitals,   jails,    etc 1,621 

Number   of   Meetings   Held    in   Jails 72 

Number  of  Persons  helped  to  employment: 

Men    3,778 

Women 205 

It  is  believed  that  never  in  the  history  of  the 
church  had  the  field  around  them  been  in  such 
dire  poverty  as  was  the  case  during  1915. 
Unemployment  was  the  rule  rather  than  the  ex- 
ception; in  this  emergency  appeals  were  made 

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to  friends  in  the  surrounding  cities  and  suburbs, 
and  even  in  the  neighboring  states.  They  re- 
sponded in  a  most  magnificent  way.  Literally 
carloads  of  materials  were  placed  at  their  dis- 
posal for  distribution.  The  receipts  according 
to  the  estimates  were  as  follows: 

Old    Clothing $2,379.00 

New   Clothing-    540.00 

Groceries,  Thanksgiving  and  Christmas  dinners,  Christ- 
mas candies,  toys,  and  dolls 916.00 

Thirty-five  tons  of  coal  were  donated  for  dis- 
tribution, in  fifty-pound  sacks,  by  a  prominent 
coal  company.  The  total  receipt  of  materials  for 
relief  work  amounted  to  $5,048,  not  including 
the  value  of  the  coal. 

The  Industrial  School  meets  ever}'  Saturday 
afternoon  for  a  period  of  about  thirty  weeks. 
This  school  has  been  gradually  developing  year 
by  year,  until  in  1915  its  average  attendance 
was  120.  The  year  before  it  was  sixty- two.  One 
of  the  sweetest  influences  of  the  church  is  to 
be  found  in  the  school.  Here  the  girls,  from  the 
kindergarten  age  up,  are  taught  to  sew  until 
they  learn  to  make  the  different  articles  of  their 
own  clothing. 

Tliis  year  it  is  expected  to  start  the  boys* 
department  of  the  Industrial  School  on  Saturday 

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mornings.  The  plans  are  already  made  and  the 
work  will  probably  start  about  the  first  of 
November. 

Seventy-five  girls  a  week  were  taught  to  cook 
in  the  Cooking  Club.  These  girls  are  divided 
into  eight  clubs  which  are  limited  in  membership 
to  twelve.  Practically  all  of  them  had  a  waiting 
list  of  girls  anxious  to  join  as  soon  as  there  was 
an  opening.  These  girls  are  taught  to  make 
thirty  different  articles  during  the  club  season. 
A  visit  to  any  one  of  the  clubs  will  convince  any- 
one of  the  value  of  such  work. 

Institutional  work  is  covered  by  the  follow- 
ing organizations: 

Wesley  Memorial  Hospital,  at  25th  and 
Dearborn  streets,  was  established  in  1888,  for 
the  treatment  of  medical  and  surgical  diseases  of 
the  sick  poor.  Patients  are  admitted  without 
regard  to  color,  race,  or  creed,  if  able  to  pay,  and 
are  charged  from  $7  to  $150  a  week.  The  hos- 
pital is  supported  by  endowment,  contributions, 
and  charges.  It  maintains  a  nurses'  training 
school  and  a  social  service  department. 

Grace  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  at  Lo- 
cust and  La  Salle  streets,  maintains  clubs  and 
classes,  gymnasium,  industrial  store,  where  sec- 
ond-hand and  waste  material  are  put  into  service, 

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motion  picture  entertainments,  an  Italian  de- 
partment, a  brotherhood  home  for  young  men, 
and  the  Hobbs  House  for  young  women.  The 
Good  Citizenship  Department  has  been  active  in 
the  elimination  from  the  community  of  many 
lawless  saloons,  gambling  dens  and  other  dis- 
reputable places. 

Elizabeth  Marcy  Center,  1335  Newberry 
Avenue,  was  established  in  1884,  to  promote  the 
social,  civic,  and  religious  welfare  of  the  neigh- 
borhood. It  maintains  a  dispensary,  gymnasium, 
playground,  kindergarten,  Sunday  School,  Eng- 
lish and  industrial  classes,  and  supports  a  ward 
in  the  West  Side  Hospital. 

Halsted  Street  Institutional  Church,  1935 
Halsted  Street,  was  established  in  1906  for  spir- 
itual ministration,  for  humanitarian  and  charity 
work.  By  it  are  maintained  a  reading  room, 
gymnasium,  clubs,  classes,  lectures,  and  enter- 
tainments. Through  its  agency,  ice  and  flour 
are  distributed  to  the  needy. 

Lincoln  Street  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
at  Lincoln  Street  and  22nd  Place,  maintains  a 
day  nursery,  poor  relief,  boys'  and  girls'  clubs, 
industrial  school,  friendly  visiting,  summer  out- 
ings, free  employment  bureau. 

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THE  PLAYGROUND 

Elizabeth  Marcy  Center. 


Work     of     Religious     Organizations 

Union  Avenue  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
at  43rd  Place  and  Union  Avenue,  conducts  an 
employment  office,  assists  in  finding  rooms  for 
strangers  and  transients,  gives  relief,  offers  free 
reading  rooms,  game  rooms,  outdoor  summer 
playground  for  children  under  ten.  There  are 
g>^mnasium,  shower  baths,  bowling  alleys,  clubs 
and  classes,  domestic  science,  and  entertainments. 
It  is  supported  by  the  G.  F.  Swift  Estate  by 
means  of  an  endowment;  also  by  membership 
fees. 

Wabash  Avenue  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  at  Wabash  Avenue  and  14th  Street, 
gives  relief  for  unemployed  men,  and  clothing, 
food,  etc.,  to  the  needy.  It  operates  a  free  dis- 
pensary, and  provides  dinners  for  unemployed 
men. 

Methodist  Episcopal  Old  People's  Home, 
1415  Foster  Avenue,  was  established  in  1898,  for 
aged  and  dependent  members  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  within  bounds  of  Rock  River 
Conference.  Persons  applying  for  admission 
must  be  65  years  of  age  or  over;  the  admission 
fee  is  $500  or  more,  according  to  age.  It  has  a 
capacity  of  100,  and  is  supported  chiefly  by 
donations. 

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IJrotherliood  House  {(rrace  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church),  8(>7  No.  La  Salle  Street,  was 
established  in  1909,  to  provide  a  Christian  home 
for  young  men.  It  has  a  capacity  of  12  men ;  the 
rates  are  $6.00  a  week.    It  is  self-supporting. 

Bethany  Home  of  the  Swedish  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  5015  N.  Paulina  Street,  was 
incorporated  in  1890,  to  give  a  non-sectarian 
home  to  men  and  women  over  65,  and  a  tem- 
porary home  to  the  worthy  poor.  It  has  a 
capacity  of  40  persons.  Xo  fixed  charge  is  made; 
guests  pay  according  to  ability.  The  home  is 
further  supported  by  voluntary  contributions. 

Susanna  Wesley  Home,  3143  Michigan  Ave- 
nue, was  established  in  1907,  to  furnish  a  resting 
place  for  Scandinavian  young  women  transients, 
particularly  those  recuperating  from  illness  or 
breakdown  from  overwork.  Rates  to  those  able 
to  pay,  $1.50  a  day,  or  $4.00  to  $5.00  a  week. 
The  capacity  is  40  to  50  persons.  There  is  no 
denominational  restriction  to  applicants.  The 
home  is  supported  by  the  Woman's  Home  Mis- 
sionary societies  of  the  church. 

Lutherans:  The  Lutheran  churches  in 
Chicago  number  about  153,  with  five  city  and 
inner  missions  and  five  Lutheran  societies.  Its 
institutions  include  the  follo^^ing: 

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Augiistana  Central  lloiiie,  1346  No.  La 
Salle  Street,  was  established  in  1912  as  a  mis- 
sion hotel,  with  a  eapacity  of  40  guests.  It  is 
supported  by  fees  and  voluntary  contributions. 

Augustana  Home  for  the  Aged,  7540  Stony 
Island  Avenue,  was  incorporated  in  1911,  as  a 
home  for  the  aged  of  both  sexes,  65  years  of 
age  and  over.  It  also  has  a  capacity  of  40,  and 
is  supported  by  admission  fees  and  by  voluntarj^ 
contributions. 

Augustana  Women's  Home,  at  1307  E.  54th 
Street,  was  established  in  1907,  to  provide  a 
refuge  for  servants.  It  has  accommodations  for 
22  guests,  and  is  supported  by  fees  of  those  who 
can  pay,  and  bj^  the  Yoimg  People's  Society  of 
the  church. 

Norwegian  Lutheran  Bethesda  Home,  2244 
Haddon  Avenue,  was  established  in  1907,  to  fur- 
nish room,  light,  and  heat  free  to  aged  and  des- 
titute Norwegians  of  both  sexes,  65  years  of  age 
or  over.  It  is  supported  by  membership  fees 
and  by  donations,  and  has  a  capacity  of  40. 

To  the  above  may  be  added:  Chicago 
Strangers'  Home,  Cook  County  Kinderheim, 
Danish  Lutheran  Orphan  Home,  Danish  Old 
People's  Home,  Evangelical  Lutheran  Home 
Finding  Society  of  Illinois,  Immanuel  Women's 

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Home,  Lutheran  Home  for  the  Aged,  Norwe- 
gian Lutheran  Children's  Home,  Norwegian 
\Vomeii's  Home,  and  Norwegian  Old  People's 
Home. 

The  following  hospitals  are  either  directly 
managed  by  or  owe  their  existence  to  Lutheran 
influence : 

Augustana  Hospital,  2043  Cleveland  Ave- 
nue, was  established  in  1884,  with  beds  for  200 
patients,  of  whom  ten  per  cent  are  charity 
patients.  It  is  supported  by  fees,  gifts,  and  con- 
tributions. It  maintains  a  training  school  for 
nurses. 

Norwegian  Lutheran  Deaconess  Hospital, 
1138  N.  Leavitt  Street,  was  established  in  1897, 
to  provide  medical  and  surgical  care  irrespec- 
tive of  race  or  creed.  Patients  unable  to  pay 
are  treated  free.  To  those  who  can,  fees  range 
up  to  $40  a  week.  There  are  100  beds.  It 
conducts  a  training  school  for  nurses,  and  gives 
outdoor  relief.  It  is  supported  by  earnings  and 
voluntary  contributions. 

Passavant  Memorial  Hospital,  149  W. 
Superior  Street,  cares  for  sick  and  injured, 
regardless  of  race,  color,  creed,  or  economic 
condition.     It  has  70  beds,  some  of  which  are 

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AIKEN    INSTITUTE 
Ministers  to  the  needs  of  twenty-three  nationalities. 


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Work     of     Religious     Organizations 

free.  Charges  to  those  able  to  pay,  $8  to  $30 
a  week. 

Baptists:  Chicago  Baptist  activities  em- 
brace, in  addition  to  a  large  number  of  denomi- 
national organizations,  a  number  of  important 
institutions.  Among  these  may  be  considered 
the  following: 

Aiken  Institute  is  situated  near  the  heart 
of  Cliicago,  in  a  manufacturing  district,  sur- 
rounded by  people  of  twenty-six  different 
nationahties.  During  the  past  year,  it  minis- 
tered to  the  needs  of  415  girls  and  378  boys. 
It  has  537  students  in  its  Bible  classes,  and 
the  Simimer  Vacation  Bible  School  enrolled  776, 
making  it  the  largest  school  in  Chicago  and  the 
second  largest  in  the  whole  country.  Mission 
study  classes  organized  for  the  first  in  1915,  had 
in  1916  an  enrollment  of  213.  Family  night,  an 
established  feature,  held  once  a  week,  when 
father,  mother,  and  children  spend  the  entire 
evening  at  the  Institute,  has  an  average  atten- 
dance of  235.    Homes  directly  touched,  801. 

Baptist  Old  People's  Home,  at  Maywood, 
Illinois,  cares  for  the  aged  of  their  denomina- 
tion, with  accommodations  for  30.  All  rooms 
are  taken,  and  there  are  more  calls  for  aid  than 


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Human    Welfare    Work    in    Cliicago 

can  be  answered,  it  is  only  when  death  removes 
an  imnate  that  another  can  be  admitted.  Dur- 
ing 1915  the  endowment  fund  was  increased 
from  $11,000  to  $23,000.  In  addition,  about 
$8,000  of  the  permanent  fund  is  invested.  The 
expense  of  maintaining  the  home  is  approxi- 
mately $450  a  month.  To  care  for  the  cases 
applying  at  present,  another  building,  to  cost 
about  $35,000,  is  needed  in  the  near  future. 

Baptist  Social  Union,  107  S.  Wabash  Ave- 
nue, is  the  only  organization  of  this  denomina- 
tion which  gives  an  opportunity  to  its  members 
to  meet  regularly  in  a  social  way.  The  value  of 
such  fellowship  cannot  be  overestimated,  as  it 
helps  the  members  of  the  various  Baptist 
churches  to  get  acquainted.  It  also  helps  mem- 
bers of  these  churches  to  think  and  act  together 
upon  subjects  of  denominational  and  inter- 
denominational significance.  The  speakers  are 
as  a  rule  of  national  reputation,  and  Baptist 
people  can  gain  much  benefit  by  hearing  these 
religious  leaders. 

The  Union  holds  four  meetings  each  year, 
vidth  social  hour,  a  good  banquet,  and  a  program 
of  noted  speakers  and  music. 

Central  Baptist  Children's  Home,  Maywood, 
Illinois,   places   and  supervises   the  dependent, 

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SOME   OF  THE   WORK  DONE   BY  AIKEN   INSTllUTE 
A  barren  spot  transformed  from  a  rubbish  heap  to  a  rose  garden. 


RAFFIA  WORK 
Aiken  Institute. 


Work     of     Religious     O  r  g  a  n  i  /  a  t  i  o  n  s 

half-orphan,  and  orphan  children,  including  de- 
pendent children  received  from  the  Juvenile 
Court,  placed  in  homes  with  a  view  to  adoption. 
During  1915  144  children  received  care,  and  sev- 
eral were  placed  in  good  homes.  From  65  to 
68  children  are  constantly  in  the  home.  They 
have  not  only  enjoyed  shelter,  food  and  educa- 
tional advantages,  but  they  have  also  received 
religious  training. 

Fridhem,  the  Swedish  Baptist  Home,  Mor- 
gan Park,  Illinois,  has  a  capacity  of  48  guests. 
At  the  time  of  the  last  report  42  were  being 
cared  for.  The  value  of  the  property  is  $35,000. 
Only  Scandinavian  people  are  admitted.  It  is 
supported  by  voluntary  contributions. 

German  Baptist  Old  People's  Home,  1851 
N.  Spaulding  Avenue,  is  a  splendid  institution, 
occupying  six  lots.  The  purchase  of  additional 
lots  is  under  consideration.  Another  annex  will 
have  to  be  built.  At  present  there  are  rooms 
for  eighty-five  inmates,  besides  the  rooms  for 
the  managers  and  employees,  the  dining-room, 
reception  room,  and  office.  Applications  are 
always  on  file.  The  whole  atmosphere  of  the 
place,  home-like  rather  than  institutional,  makes 
the  old  folks  really  feel  at  home,  and  they  rec- 
ommend the  Home  to  others.     The  Home  has 

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Human    Welfare    \\^  o  r  k    in    Chicago 

its  own  laundry  and  bakery.  Applicants  must 
be  at  least  60  years  old,  and  pay  a  minimum  fee 
of  $400. 

The  University  of  Chicago,  founded  in  1888- 
1890,  was  begun  by  the  gifts  of  Baptists  all  over 
the  country,  and  has  been  sustained  by  the  gen- 
erous gifts  of  wealthy  philanthropists.  During 
the  twenty-six  years  of  its  existence  its  progress 
has  been  unequaled  among  the  privately  en- 
dowed universities  of  the  country.  Its  campus, 
including  the  grounds  of  the  Yerkes  Observatory 
at  Williams  Bay,  Lake  Geneva,  Wisconsin, 
covers  about  120  acres.  It  occupies  about  40 
buildings  for  the  various  purposes  of  an  insti- 
tution of  learning.  A  building  for  women  cost- 
ing over  $500,000  has  been  completed.  A  gift 
of  $200,000  for  a  building  for  theological 
instruction  has  just  been  announced.  The  en- 
dowment now  amounts  to  about  $20,000,000. 
To  the  endowment  of  the  university  and  to  the 
erection  of  its  buildings  over  $35,000,000  has 
been  contributed. 

The  faculty  consists  of  over  400  teachers, 
men  and  women  recognized  in  the  world  of  edu- 
cation as  leaders  of  thought  and  method.  They 
have  done  conspicuous  service  in  behalf  of  muni- 
cipal reform  and  good  government  everywhere. 

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The  teachers  in  the  Divinity  School  have  been 
associated  from  the  foundation  of  the  Theologi- 
cal Union  in  1866  with  the  progress  of  the  de- 
nomination in  Chicago. 

From  1892-3,  when  the  total  enrollment  of 
students  was  742,  the  attendance  of  students  has 
steadily  increased  until  for  the  year  1916-17  it 
was  not  far  from  9,000.  Students  come  to  the 
institution  from  eveiy  state  in  the  union  and 
from  many  foreign  countries. 

The  university  is  exercising  an  increasing 
degree  of  helpfulness.  Many  of  its  graduates 
are  in  positions  of  influence  in  all  branches  of 
commercial  and  professional  activity.  The  future 
prosperity  of  the  university  is  assured;  new 
friends  are  continually  being  made. 

Western  German  Baptist  Old  People's 
Home,  at  Cortland  Street  and  Spaulding  Ave- 
nue, was  incorporated  in  1896,  to  provide  a  home 
for  aged  Germans  of  both  sexes.  Applicants 
must  be  at  least  60  years  old.  Admission  fee, 
$300  and  up,  according  to  age.  This  fee  pro- 
vides for  care  during  life,  and  burial  expenses. 
There  are  accommodations  for  85  inmates,  forty 
per  cent  of  whom  may  be  charity  cases.  The 
Home  is  supported  by  German  Baptist  churches 
of  Chicago. 

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Human     Welfare    Work    in    Chicago 

The  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
OF  Chicago  :  The  Yoimg  Men's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation has  29  branches  in  the  city  of  Chicag(j, 
with  a  membership  of  about  20,806.  Its  build- 
ings and  net  assets  represent  approximately  four 
millions  of  dollars.  Its  endowment  fund  is 
$1,860,218.  The  business  men  of  Chicago  sub- 
scribe approximately  $85,000  a  year  to  help  de- 
fray the  annual  expenses. 

The  full-time  employed  officers  number  142. 
There  are  nearly  4,000  persons  serving  on  vari- 
ous committees,  giving  their  time  freely  to  help 
carry  on  the  work  of  the  institution. 

Chicago  stands  first  among  the  cities  of  the 
world  in  this  work,  in  its  property  holdings, 
endowment  funds,   and  membership. 

One  of  the  greatest  achievements  in  the  his- 
tory of  this  institution  was  the  building  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  Hotel,  located  at  Wabash  Avenue 
and  Eighth  Street,  which  was  dedicated  in  June, 
1916.  It  is  nineteen  stories  high  with  two  base- 
ments. Above  the  lobbies  are  1,821  small  bed- 
rooms, all  outside,  steam  heated,  well  lighted, 
and  thoroughly  ventilated,  to  be  rented  at  from 
30  to  50  cents  a  day.  Centrally  located  on  each 
of  the  sixteen  floors  is  a  large  lavatory  where, 

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THE  YOUNG  MEN'S  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION  HOTEL 

Most    hotels   are    concerned    in    what    they    can    get   out    of    their 

guests;  tliis  hotel  is  chietiy  concerned  in  wliat  it  can 

put   into  its  guests. 


THE  IIOTEI.  LOBBY 


THE  HOTEL  OAFETERTA 


Work     of     Religious     Organizations 

in  addition  to  the  usual  facilities,  there  is  a  liberal 
supply  of  clean  towels  and  two  shower  baths,  all 
for  the  use  of  guests  without  extra  charge. 

The  restaurant  service  is  of  two  kinds:  the 
cafeteria  dining-room,  the  character  of  which 
is  exceptionally  agreeable,  seating  360  and 
located  on  the  ground  floor  to  the  left  of  the 
elevators,  and  the  lunch  room,  where  service  is 
entirely  at  counters,  at  the  left  of  the  hotel 
entrance. 

Music,  entertainments,  and  lectures  of  in- 
terest to  young  men  are  given  each  evening  in 
the  rear  lobby,  where  500  men  may  be  comfort- 
ably seated. 

The  total  cost  of  the  entire  enterprise  is 
about  $1,350,000.  Funds  have  been  provided 
by  the  following  sources: 

Donations     $657,000 

Mortg-ag-e    500,000 

Advance  from  other  funds  of  the  Association 193,000 

The  hotel  makes  the  twenty-ninth  depart- 
ment of  the  metropolitan  association,  which  now 
comprises  seven  general  departments  with  stand- 
ard building  equipment;  seven  railroad  depart- 
ments with  buildings  suitable  for  their  purpose; 
three  community  departments;  ten  student  de- 
partments ;  and  one  boys'  club  building  at  North 

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Avenue  and  Larrabee  Street,  now  nearing  com- 
pletion. The  seven  city  departments  provide 
dormitory  privileges  for  more  than  1,500  men 
now  in  residence. 

In  this  hotel  will  be  serv^ed  the  self-respect- 
ing young  man  at  the  threshold  of  his  city  life, 
men  of  moderate  means  passing  through  the 
city,  and  those  temporarily  out  of  work.  Its  de- 
sign is  to  protect  men  from  the  dangerous 
environment  wliich  is  frequently  found  in  cheap 
hotels  and  lodging  houses  in  and  near  the  loop 
district;  to  assist  men  in  securing  employment 
and  later  to  locate  them  in  regular  Association 
dormitories,  or  carefully  chosen  homes. 

This  hotel  is  not  intended  as  a  permanent 
home,  but  rather  as  a  temporary  residence, 
where,  without  membership  fee,  men  may  be 
comfortably  and  economically  housed  in  a  whole- 
some environment  until  such  time  as  they  may 
find  employment  or  are  ready  to  locate  per- 
manently. 

The  building  is  called  a  hotel,  but  that  name 
is  not  quite  accurate,  for  the  features  which  dis- 
tinguish it  from  the  ordinary  commercial  city 
hotel  are  more  conspicuoTis  than  those  which 
make  for  resemblance.  To  cite  but  one  such 
feature,  the  ordinary  hotel  is  chiefly  interested 

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THE    CENTRAL   BUILDING 
The  Younff  Men's   Christian  Association. 


DOZEN   DIFFERENT   NATIONALITIES 
The  West  Side  Y.  :M.  C.  A. 


ATHLETIC  MEET 
Gyiiiiiasium,  the  Sears,  Roebuck  Y.  M.  C.  A. 


Work     of     Religious     Organizations 

in  what  it  can  get  out  of  its  guests.  This  hotel, 
on  the  contrary,  is  chiefly  concerned  in  what  it 
can  put  into  its  guests.  It  might,  not  inappro- 
priately, have  been  named  the  "Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Factory,"  in  view  of  the  great  constructive  work 
of  citizenship  and  manhood  which  it  has  planned. 
That  plan  is,  in  brief,  to  so  preoccupy,  in  clean 
and  wholesome  ways,  the  time  and  thought  and 
interest  of  these  young  men  upon  their  first 
arrival  in  Chicago,  that  the  forces  of  vice  and 
evil  can  gain  no  footing  in  their  lives.  To  that 
end  the  hotel  provides  clean  and  sanitary  bed- 
rooms, baths,  reading  room  and  restaurant;  it 
provides  every  evening  an  entertainment  in  the 
form  of  a  lecture,  music,  stereopticon,  or  mov- 
ing pictures,  followed  by  a  brief  devotional  serv- 
ice; it  furnishes  an  employment  bureau,  in 
charge  of  men  trained  in  business  and  vocational 
matters  (such  a  bureau  as  has  been  conducted  at 
the  Central  Department  of  the  Chicago  Asso- 
ciation, through  which  last  year  3,691  men  and 
boj'^s  secured  positions  and  30,000  were  given 
personal  interviews  and  advised  on  employment 
matters ) ;  there  will  be  kept  a  carefully  prepared 
list  of  boarding  houses  in  desirable  neighborhoods 
to  which  the  men  \^ill  be  transferred  for  perma- 
nent residence  as  rapidly  as  possible,  and,  at  all 

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times,  officials  in  charge  of  the  hotel  will  be 
ready  and  eager  to  confer  with  the  men  on  mat- 
ters relating  to  their  needs  and  general  welfare. 
These  are  some  of  the  services  which  the  hotel 
expects  to  render. 

Y.  M.  C.  A.  College,  5315  Drexel  Avenue, 
provides  a  professional  school  for  the  training  of 
executive  officers  of  Young  Men's  Christian  as- 
sociations. There  are  five  schools:  Association 
Administration,  Physical  Education,  Boys' 
Work,  County  Work,  and  Railroad  Association 
Work,  fitting  the  students  for  work  as  general 
secretaries  and  directors  in  the  above-named 
work.  The  college  is  interdenominational.  Its 
capacity  is  300.  It  is  supported  by  tuition  fees 
and  subscription.  There  is  conducted  a  sum- 
mer school  at  Lake  Geneva,  Wisconsin. 

Young  Women^s  Christian  Association, 
830  Michigan  Avenue,  established  in  1876,  has 
for  its  object  the  promotion  of  the  moral,  reli- 
gious, intellectual,  and  temporal  welfare  of  self- 
supporting  women.  It  is  non-sectarian.  Board 
is  charged  for  at  the  rate  of  $1.50  to  $2.00  a 
day,  or  $4.50  to  $7.00  a  week.  Accommoda- 
tions are  pro\nded  for  376  guests.  There  are 
conducted  educational  classes,  gymnasium,  and 
employment  bureau.     There  are  two  branches, 

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THE  CENTRAL  BUILDING,  THE  YOUNG  WOMEN'S 

CHRISTIAN    ASSOCIATION 

The  work  promotes  in  every  way  the  welfare  of  young  women. 

This   building   provides   home   and  board   for   nearly 

four   hundred. 


Work     of     Religious     Organizations 

one  on  the  West  Side,  at  318  S.  Ashland  Boule- 
vard, and  one  on  the  North  Side,  at  473  Irving 
Park  Boulevard. 

Associated  Jewish  Charities:  The  Asso- 
ciated Jewish  Societies  of  Chicago  has  a  remark- 
able record  of  achievement  during  the  past 
fifteen  years.  Its  disbursements  to  beneficiaries 
for  the  year  ending  May,  1916,  were  as  follows: 

Jewish    Aid    Society,    for    Relief $192,061.71 

Jewish    Aid    Society,    for    Dispensary 32,000.00 

Jewish  Aid  Society,  for  Bureau  of  Personal  Service.  23,800.00 
Jewish  Aid   Society,   for  B'nai     B'rith     Free     Employ- 
ment   Bureau     5,475.00 

Michael    Reese   Hospital 119,000.00 

Home   for  Aged  Jews 7,750.00 

Chicag-o  Home  for  Jewish  Orphans 27,400.00 

Jewish  Training  School  of  Chicago 14,575.00 

Home  for  Jewish  Friendless  and  Working  Girls 2ft,900.00 

Maxwell   Settlement   Association 5,200.00 

Jewish   Home    Finding    Society 81,100.00 

Chicago-Winfield    Tuberculosis    Sanitarium 24,285.00 

The  Helen  Day  Nursery 5,400.00 

Chicago  Lying-in   Hospital   and   Dispensary 3.000.00 

Woman's    Loan    Association 2,780.00 

Chicago  Association  for  Jewish  Women 1,000.00 

Jewish  Consumptive  Relief  Society,   Denver 1,000.00 

National  Jewish  Hospital,  Denver 4,ono.00 

Hebrew  Sheltering  and  Immigrant  Aid  Society,  N.  T.  1,000.00 

Central  Bureau  of  Jewish  Charities  of  Chicago 5,500.00 

Leo  N.  Levi  Memorial  Hospital  Association 300.00 

Federated    Orthodox    Jewish    Charities 10,000.00 


Total   to   Beneficiaries $553,466.71 

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11  lima  11     W"  el  fa  re     Work    in    Cliieago 

The  hospitals  of  Chicago  are  most  liberal  in 
free  treatment.  The  record  of  some  of  the  prin- 
cipal ones  for  191G  is  as  follows: 

Michael    Reese    73,695  days 

St.  Luke's   5.1,640  days 

German    13,737  days 

Presbyterian    27,000  days 

Wesley   22,315  days 

Hahnemann    5,000  days 

Passavant  Memorial   2,888  days 

Salvation  Akmy:  The  scope  and  magni- 
tude of  the  operations  of  the  Salvation  Army 
are  very  great.  Scattered  throughout  the  city 
are  47  centers,  Institutions,  Relief  Departments, 
Posts,  and  Corps,  devoted  to  the  physical,  moral, 
and  spiritual  uplift  of  the  people.  For  the  year 
ending  September  29,  1916,  29,289  hours  were 
spent  by  officers  in  visitation  in  the  homes  of 
Chicago,  8,941  public  meetings  were  held  in 
halls,  institutions,  and  open  air,  with  an  attend- 
ance at  all  meetings  in  halls  and  on  the  street, 
of  over  a  million.  At  the  various  institutions 
for  poor  men  and  women  151,501  beds  and  meals 
were  worked  for,  besides  which  $38,779.98  in 
cash  was  paid  to  the  inmates  for  work  done.  To 
persons  who  were  not  in  a  position  to  work,  or 
whom  it  was  impossible  to  supply  with  work, 
111,354  beds  and  meals,   11,330  garments  and 

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pairs  of  shoes,  and  123  tons  of  coal  were  gi\'en 
without  charge.  $148,623.26  was  spent  in  the 
Charity  and  Relief  departments  and  institu- 
tions mentioned  above,  of  which  only  6.18  per 
cent  went  for  the  salaries  of  the  25  officers  in 
charge  of  these  operations,  while  26  per  cent 
went  to  the  inmates  for  work  done.  Of  the 
income  of  $149,220.96,  the  public  donated  in 
cash  only  13  per  cent,  nearly  all  the  other  87 
per  cent  being  the  result  directly  or  indirectly 
of  the  labor  of  those  who  were  assisted,  demon- 
strating the  practicability  and  efficiency  of  the 
method  of  encouraging  the  poor  to  work  out 
their  own  salvation. 

In  Chicago  the  Salvation  Army  has  two 
training  colleges,  one  for  men  at  1230  West 
Adams  Street,  and  one  for  women  at  116  South 
Ashland  Avenue.  In  addition  to  lectures  and 
studies  the  cadets  spend  considerable  time  in 
visiting,  investigating,  jail  work,  open  air  work, 
and  meetings  in  institutions.  During  the  year 
the  Cadets  visited  16,009  homes,  held  1,055  meet- 
ings at  which  271  persons  professed  conversion. 
The  Slum  Officers  visited  6,869  poor  families, 
gave  away  15,313  meals,  35^  tons  of  coal,  1,957 
garments  and  shoes. 

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II  11  111  a  n     W  e  1  f  a  r  e     W  o  r  k    in     C  h  i  c  a  g  o 

Twenty-two  miles  west  of  Chicago,  on  a  hill 
overlooking  the  beautiful  ^'illage  of  Glen  EUyn, 
Illinois,  is  located  the  Salvation  Army's  Summer 
Camp  for  Chicago's  poor.  Two  large  houses, 
barns  and  outhouses,  with  56  acres  of  lawn, 
orchard,  garden,  and  field  and  shade  trees  of  a 
hundred  varieties  form  an  ideal  resort  for  tired 
mothers  and  their  children,  who  here  recuperate 
their  strength  and  are  heartened  for  the  struggle 
of  another  year.  Each  week  during  the  summer 
fifty  mothers  and  children  come  to  this  home,  are 
fed  on  the  best  of  country  food,  and  enjoy  them- 
selves generally. 

For  more  than  twenty  years  from  ten  to  fif- 
teen thousand  Christmas  dinners  have  been  dis- 
tributed by  the  Salvation  Army  among  the  poor 
of  Cliicago,  and  many  thousands  of  toys  given 
to  poor  children. 

During  the  last  year  203  girls  found  refuge 
in  the  Rescue  and  Maternity  Home  located  at 
1332  North  La  Salle  Street.  During  that  year 
66  babies  were  born  in  this  Home,  31  others  were 
cared  for,  and  10  were  in  the  Home  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  year,  making  a  total  of  107  babies. 
Of  these  96  were  passed  out  with  their  mothers. 
Of  the  203  girls  who  were  inmates  during  the 
year,  109  passed  out  to  situations,  50  were  re- 
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THE  lXi:)rSTRlAL  HOMK   FolJ   .Ml':\ 
Sal\ation    Aniiw 


THK   YOUXr;    WOMEN'S   HOARD  I  Xf  J    IIO^FE 
Salvation    Arinv. 


(  IIUISTMAS   BASKETS   READY    l-OU    DISTRIBUTION 
Salvation    Annv. 


LIFE-SAVING  SOOUTS 
Cilcii  Ellyn  Camp,  Salvation  Army. 


Work     of     Religious     Organizations 

turned  to  parents  and  friends,  5  married,  1  died, 
5  were  unsatisfactory,  and  24  were  in  the  Home 
at  the  close  of  1916.  The  girls  remain  in  the 
Home  at  least  thi-ee  months  and  as  much  longer 
as  necessary. 

The  Chicago  Yomig  Women's  Boarding 
Home  is  a  comfortable,  cheery  Christian  home 
for  self-supporting  young  women,  owned  and 
operated  by  the  Salvation  Army,  and  located  at 
Delaware  Place  and  North  Dearborn  Street.  It 
accommodates  140  guests.  The  charge  is  from 
$3.50  a  week  upward  for  steam-heated,  outside 
rooms  with  hot  and  cold  water,  electric  light, 
use  of  parlor,  laundry,  electric  irons,  etc.,  with 
three  good  meals  a  day.  Nothing  is  lacking  to 
make  it  an  ideal  Christian  home. 

The  Department  of  Charities  and  Prisons 
is  located  at  669  So.  State  Street,  and  embraces 
the  Central  Relief  Department,  Labor  Bureau, 
Anti- Suicide  Biu-eau,  Free  Legal  Bureau,  Free 
Dispensary,  Missing  Friends  Department,  and 
Prison  Department. 

Although  from  25  different  centers  through- 
out the  city  over  100  officers  and  cadets  are  visit- 
ing and  investigating,  yet  a  great  many  people 
come  to  the  Salvation  Army  Relief  Department 
for  assistance  of  various  kinds.    During  the  past 

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year  from  this  center  there  were  distributed  to 
the  poor  1,4-52  baskets  of  food,  5,721  free  meals, 
87^  tons  of  coal,  1,549  free  beds,  9,290  gar- 
ments and  shoes.  Positions  were  found  for  6,595 
men  and  women,  while  many  were  sent  to  Salva- 
tion Army  institutions.  In  the  free  legal  bureau 
services  were  given  free  of  charge  in  100  cases 
during  the  year.  In  the  free  dispensary  five 
thousand  two  hundred  and  four  cases  were 
treated  during  the  year  and  supplied  with  medi- 
cine. 

The  Salvation  Army  Industrial  Home,  lo- 
cated at  1325  W.  Congress  Street,  is  one  of  the 
most  remarkable  charities  in  the  city  of  Chicago 
in  that  it  does  its  work  without  asking  the  public 
for  a  cent  in  cash,  assists  thousands  of  men,  many 
of  whom  are  permanently  restored  to  economic 
independence,  feeds  and  clothes  these  men,  giv- 
ing them  a  small  cash  allowance  at  the  end  of 
each  week,  besides  clearing  the  attics  and  base- 
ments of  the  well-to-do  of  old  clothes,  paper,  and 
furniture,  much  of  which  is  useless  to  the  house- 
holders. Waste  labor  plus  waste  material  equals 
social  redemption.  In  other  words,  old  news- 
papers, magazines,  hats,  clothes,  stoves,  and  fur- 
niture in  1916  furnished  98,145  meals  and  32,715 
beds,  besides  $26,716.65  cash  to  Chicago's  unem- 

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ployed  in  exchange  for  their  labor  in  collecting, 
sorting,  repairing,  and  distributing  these  mate- 
rials. 

The  Salvation  Army  has  a  modern  steam- 
heated  home,  erected  in  1913,  on  West  Congress 
Street,  at  a  cost  of  $50,000.  The  Home  has 
accommodations  for  120  men  and  in  the  ware- 
house, which  is  separated  from  the  Home  by  a 
fireproof  wall,  there  is  capacity  for  handling  25 
tons  of  paper  a  day,  besides  sorting  and  repair- 
ing the  clothing  and  furniture  that  are  brought 
in.  The  clothing  and  fui*niture  are  sorted  and 
repaired  and  distributed  to  ten  stores  which  are 
located  in  the  poorer  districts  throughout  the 
cit}^,  where  they  are  sold  to  the  poor.  The  pur- 
pose of  selling  these  goods  is  twofold:  first  to 
preserve  the  self-respect  of  the  purchaser,  and 
second  to  obtain  funds  to  defray  the  cost  of  col- 
lecting and  distributing  materials  and  the  hous- 
ing and  feeding  of  the  unemployed. 

Few  people  realize  that  though  these  goods 
are  given  by  the  public,  the  cost  of  collecting, 
of  feeding  the  50  horses  used  for  this  purpose, 
repairing  wagons,  feeding  and  providing  sleep- 
ing accommodations  for  120  men,  and  paying 
rent  and  other  incidentals  for  ten  distributing 
stores,  is  very  great,  and  if  these  items  were  not 

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Hum  a  II     Welfare     W'ork     in     Chicago 

covered  by  a  small  charge  per  garment,  it  would 
be  necessary  to  go  to  the  public  of  Chicago  for 
an  annual  donation  of  $43,000  in  order  to  carry 
on  the  work  that  is  now  being  carried  on  without 
the  donation  of  a  single  dollar  for  this  purpose. 
No  charge  is  made  for  clothing  where  the  appli- 
cant is  in  need  and  not  in  a  position  to  pay. 

The  ultimate  object  of  the  industrial  opera- 
tions is  to  place  these  men  back  in  the  wage- 
earning  army  with  steady  work  and  physical  and 
moral  ability  to  make  good.  Any  man  begging 
from  door  to  door  may  be  sent  to  this  institution 
and  will  be  cared  for. 

The  Salvation  Army  operates  in  Chicago  five 
hotels  for  men,  with  a  total  accommodation  for 
1,425  guests  per  night:  Evangeline  Hotel,  653 
So.  Clark  Street;  Workmen's  Palace,  621  W. 
Madison  Street;  Beacon  Hotel,  1011  So.  State 
Street;  New  Century  Hotel,  438  So.  State 
Street;  Reliance  Hotel,  669  So.  State  Street. 

For  from  15  to  25  cents  a  night  a  man  may 
obtain  a  room  with  individual  electric  light,  good 
clean  bed  and  bedding  with  privilege  of  com- 
fortable, light  reading  room,  shower  and  tub 
baths,  use  of  laundry  tubs,  dryer,  etc.  For  10 
cents  a  night  he  can  have  all  these  privileges  with 
a  bed  and  locker  in  a  large,  airy  dormitory.  Free 

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coffee  and  rolls  are  also  furnished  in  the  morn- 
ing in  some  of  the  hotels. 

During  the  year  1916,  13,862  free  charity 
beds  were  given  to  men.  Band  concerts  are  given 
to  the  men  in  the  hotels  and  religious  meetings 
are  held  weekly. 

Catholics:  To  sum  up  briefly  the  work 
done  by  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  would  be 
a  difficult  task,  as  almost  every  field  of  charity 
is  covered.  While  all  such  work  is  under  the 
direct  control  of  the  church,  and  therefore  has 
the  archbishop  of  Chicago  for  its  head,  yet  there 
is  no  general  report  of  all  institutions  and  socie- 
ties. Each  one  has  its  own  special  set  of  officers 
who  are  in  complete  control  under  the  guidance 
of  the  archbishop.  The  institutional  work  of  the 
archdiocese  is  carried  on  by  the  following: 

St.  Mary's  Training  School  for  Boys,  Niles,  Illinois. 

Lisle  Manual  Training  School  for  Boys,  Lisle,  Illinois. 

Kettler  Manual  Training  School  for  Boys,  2001  Devon 
Avenue. 

Mission  of  Our  Lady  of  Mercy,  1140  W.  Jackson  Boule- 
vard. 

Chicago  Industrial  School  for  Girls,  Des  Plaines,  Illinois. 

Illinois  Technical  School  for  Colored  Girls,  4910  Indiana 
Avenue. 

Katharine  Kasper  Industrial  School  for  Girls,  2001  Devon 
Avenue. 

Convent  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  1 126  Grace  Street. 

Industrial  School  for  Girls,  Lisle,  Illinois. 

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St.  Hedwig's  Industrial  School  for  Girls  ( Polish),  Niles. 
Guardian  Angel's  Orphan  and  Infant  Asylum  (German), 

2001   Devon  Avenue. 
St.  Joseph's  Home  for  the  Friendless,  739  E.  35th  Street. 
St.  Joseph's  Home  for  the  Aged,  5148  Prairie  Avenue. 
House  of  Providence  and  Home  for  Working  Girls,  1126 

E.  Orleans  Street. 
St.  Joseph's  Home  for  Working  Girls,  1100  S.  May  Street. 
Sacred  Heart  Home  for  the  Aged,  Harrison  and  Throop 

streets. 
Provincial  House  of  the  Little  Sisters  of  the  Poor,  Ful- 

lerton  and  Sheffield  avenues. 
St.  Margaret's  Home,  2501   W.  Monroe  Street. 
Convent  of  Our  Lady  of  Mercy  and  Mercy  Home,  2834 

Wabash  Avenue. 
Convent  of  Our  Lady  of  Help,  1644  Hudson  Avenue. 
Our  Lady  of  Perpetual  Help,  1444  W.  Division  Street. 
St.  Vincent's    Infant   Asylum    and    Maternity    Hospital, 

721  N.  La  Salle  Street. 
St.  Joseph's  Home  for  the  Aged,  2649  N.  Hamlin  Avenue. 
Ephpheta  School  for  the  Deaf,  3100  N.  Crawford  Avenue. 
Bishop  Quarter  Home  for  Little  Boys. 
Women's  Catholic  Forester  Club,  Venetian  Building. 
Holy  Cross  Mission  for  the  Unemployed,  Randolph  and 

Des  Plaines  streets. 
St.  Anne's  Hospital,  4900  Thomas  Street. 
Hospital  of  St.  Anthony  of  Padua,   19tli  and  Marshall 

Boulevard. 
Columbus  Hospital,  2548  Lake  View  Avenue. 
Columbus  Extension  Hospital,  809  Lisle  Street. 
Alexian  Brothers  Hospital,  1200  Belden  Avenue. 
St.  Elizabeth's  Hospital,  1433  Claremont  Avenue. 
Mercy  Hospital,  2537  Prairie  Avenue. 
St.  Bernard's  Hotel  Dieu,  6337  Harvard  Avenue. 
St.  Joseph's  Hospital,  2100  Burling  Avenue. 
Municipal   Isolation  Hospital,  34th   Street  and  Hamlin 

Avenue. 
St.  Mary  of  Nazareth  Hospital,  1120  N.  Leavitt  Street. 

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St.  Elizabeth's  Day  Nursery,  906  N.  Franklin  Street. 

St.  Elizabeth's  Day  Nursery,  1360  N.  Ashland  Avenue. 

St.  Juliana  Day  Nursery, 

St.  Anne's  Day  Nursery. 

St.  Mary's  Day  Nursery  and  Settlement. 

The  Protectorate. 


St.  Vincent  de  Paul  Society  is  made  up  of 
1,358  laymen  of  every  walk  in  life,  who  employ 
a  certain  part  of  their  free  time  in  visiting  the 
poor  in  their  homes  and  relieving  their  wants. 
Besides  the  active  members  there  are  38.5  honor- 
ary members  who  pay  $5.00  a  year  membership 
fee  to  aid  in  the  work,  but  for  one  reason  or 
another  are  unable  to  share  in  the  work  of  the 
active  membership.  The  work  of  the  confer- 
ences is  maintained  by  the  voluntary  offerings  of 
members  at  weekly  meetings,  honorary  member- 
ship dues,  donations  of  subscribers,  poor  boxes  in 
churches,  lectures  and  entertainments.  During 
the  year  1916  this  society  relieved  1,627  fami- 
lies made  up  of  7,087  persons,  without  regard 
to  race,  creed,  or  nationality.  No  salaries  are 
paid  to  any  indi^^duals  in  the  society,  everj'-one 
donating  his  time  and  labor  gratuitously.  The 
money  spent  during  the  year  1916  by  the  St. 
Vincent  de  Paul  Conferences  amounted  to 
$28,575.00.       Clothing,     household     furniture. 

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books,  and  the  like  are  also  collected  and  dis- 
tributed by  this  society.  It  likewise  obtains  em- 
ployment for  those  in  need,  and  thus  aids  them  in 
providing  for  their  own  needs.  The  purpose  of 
the  organization  is  not  to  make  paupers  but  to 
help  by  word  and  deed  to  place  them  on  a  self- 
supporting  basis.  There  are  92  branches  of  this 
society  scattered  throughout  the  city.  Each  branch 
takes  care  of  the  poor  and  needy  in  its  own  dis- 
trict, reporting  to  the  general  council  the  num- 
ber of  families  relieved  and  the  amount  of  money 
spent.  Each  conference  is  an  individual  society 
to  the  extent  that  each  provides  its  own  funds. 
The  members  visit  the  different  public  charitable 
institutions  to  care  for  the  spiritual  and  temporal 
welfare  of  the  members  of  the  Catholic  Church. 
The  conferences  are  united  under  one  central 
body  known  as  a  Particular  Council,  in  which 
each  conference  has  representation.  This  Coun- 
cil maintains  a  public  headquarters,  known  as  its 
Central  Office,  located  at  8  South  Dearborn 
Street.  It  gives  attention  to  phases  of  charity 
work  which  are  diocesan  in  their  scope  which  is 
not  stricth^  conference  work,  chief  among  which 
is  the  placing  of  dependent  children  in  industrial 
or  manual  training  schools  and  homes,  either  by 
Juvenile  Court  proceedings  or  otherwise. 

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In  Chicago  there  are  eight  hospitals  under 
the  direction  of  the  Catholic  Church,  as  may  be 
seen  from  the  above  list.  There  is  much  chari- 
table work  done  in  these,  of  which  no  record  is 
kept.  During  the  year  about  40,000  sick  people 
were  treated.  Then  there  are  three  communities 
which  devote  themselves  to  nursing  the  sick  in 
their  homes,  depending  for  their  sustenance  on 
friends  and  on  the  contributions  received  from 
the  families  of  the  sick.  These  are  the  Poor 
Handmaids  of  Jesus  Christ,  1644  Hudson  Ave- 
nue, Sisters  of  the  Little  Company  of  Mary, 
4130  Indiana  Avenue,  and  the  Poor  Sisters  of 
St.  Francis  at  St.  Margaret's  Convent. 

The  Christ  Child  Society  is  a  society  organ- 
ized to  clothe  and  care  for  poor  children  in  their 
homes,  especially  at  Christmas  time.  The  mem- 
bers donate  their  dues  for  the  year,  a  certain 
portion  of  their  time  each  week,  and,  in  many 
cases,  clothing. 

In  its  parochial  schools,  the  Catholic  Church 
has  instituted  its  own  system  of  education.  In 
the  city  of  Chicago  alone  there  are  170  Catholic 
grammar  schools,  18  high  schools,  25  academies 
for  girls,  with  a  total  enrolment  of  over  102,000 
children.  These  schools  are  supported  by  a  small 
tuition  fee  where  parents  can  afford  it;  in  over 

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one-half  the  cases  the  children  are  admitted  free. 
The  teachers  are  women  who  have  consecrated 
their  lives  to  this  work,  the  only  salary  they 
receive  being  a  place  to  sleep,  their  sustenance, 
and  their  clothing.  There  is  a  church  board  of 
education  for  these  schools,  corresponding  to 
that  of  the  public  schools. 

Besides  the  schools  there  are  in  Chicago  eight 
Catholic  colleges.  The  Cathedral  College,  at 
Cass  and  Superior  streets,  a  diocesan  prepara- 
tory seminary  for  young  boys  preparing  to  enter 
the  ranks  of  the  Catholic  priesthood,  is  entirely 
supported  by  the  archdiocese.  At  present  it  has 
a  register  of  190  boys.  St.  Cyril's  College,  6413 
Dante  Avenue,  is  a  college,  high  school,  and  com- 
mercial school  for  young  boys.  The  other  col- 
leges are  St.  Rita's  College,  at  63rd  Street  and 
Oakley  Avenue;  St.  Stanislaus'  College,  1456 
West  Division  Street;  De  La  Salle  Institute,  at 
35th  Street  and  Wabash  Avenue;  St.  Patrick's 
Commercial  Academy,  122  S.  Des  Plaines  Street; 
Loyola  University,  6435  Sheridan  Road,  and 
De  Paul  University,  at  Webster  Avenue  and 
Osgood  Street. 

Kindergartens:  The  following  kindergar- 
tens care  for  over  600  children  who  have  not  yet 

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reached  the  school  age:  Maria  Incarnata,  St. 
Gerald's,  Our  Lady  of  Sorrows,  Guardian  An- 
gels, and  the  Convent  of  Our  Lady  of  Help. 

Training  Schools:  Four  training  schools 
care  for  the  boys  and  four  for  the  girls  who 
either  have  no  homes  or  whose  home  surround- 
ings are  not  what  they  should  be.  They  are  St. 
Mary's  Training  School,  Kettler  Manual  Train- 
ing School,  Lisle  (Illinois)  Manual  Training 
School,  and  the  Polish  Manual  Training  School, 
aggregating  1,371  boys;  and  St.  Hedwig's  In- 
dustrial School  for  Girls,  Lisle  Industrial  School 
for  Girls,  Katharine  Kasper  Industrial  School 
for  Girls,  and  the  Illinois  Technical  School  for 
Colored  Girls,  with  a  total  of  over  600  girl 
pupils. 

The  House  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  conducted 
by  the  Sisters  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  was  incor- 
porated in  May,  1859.  The  purpose  of  the  home 
is  to  care  for  wayward  and  incorrigible  girls. 
During  the  past  year  there  were  400  girls  of 
various  nationalities  and  creeds  immured.  Up 
to  the  present  year  one-third  of  the  expense  of 
the  home  was  borne  by  the  counties  which  sent 
girls  there  by  court  order.  This  year  an  injunc- 
tion was  served  to  prohibit  the  treasurers  from 
paying  this  money.    The  other  two-thirds  of  the 

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expenses  were  made  up  by  donations  and  by 
the  pay  received  for  work  done  at  the  home. 
The  convent  is  located  at  1126  Grace  Street. 

Working  Boys'  Home  is  located  at  1140 
West  Jackson  Boulevard,  and  cares  for  working 
boys  who  have  no  homes,  or  whose  home  sur- 
roundings are  not  fit  to  prepare  a  boy  for  a  good 
manhood.  The  expenses  are  met  through  the 
receipts  for  printing  done  at  the  home,  enter- 
tainments given  by  the  boys,  and  the  donations 
of  many  kind  friends. 

Ephpheta  School  for  the  Deaf  is  located  at 
3100  Crawford  Avenue.  Here  girls  under  18 
years  of  age  and  boys  under  15  years  of  age  are 
taught  various  trades  and  industries.  It  has  104 
pupils. 

St.  Joseph's  Home  for  the  Friendless  de- 
pends entirely  upon  the  funds  of  the  archdiocese 
of  Chicago  and  the  St.  Joseph's  Ladies'  Aid 
Society  for  its  support.  It  offers  temporary 
relief  to  mothers  and  families  who  are  destitute; 
women  and  young  girls  traveling  without  money 
or  protection,  until  arrangements  may  be  made 
to  improve  their  condition;  children  who  are 
neglected  or  abandoned,  until  they  are  assigned 
to  a  home  or  institution ;  children  whose  mothers 
are  ill  and  whose  fathers'  resources  are  insuffi- 

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cient  to  provide  for  their  necessary  wants,  until 
the  mothers  recover  sufficiently  to  resume  the 
home  duties.  During  the  year  1916,  1,180  cases 
were  handled  of  35  different  nationalities  and 
seven  religions,  at  a  cost  of  $15,835.  The  home 
is  absolutely  free,  the  only  requirement  being  a 
card  signed  by  Mr.  Jas.  F.  Kennedy,  8  South 
Dearborn  Street,  President  of  the  St.  Vincent 
de  Paul  Society. 

Holy  Cross  Mission  Home  was  opened  June, 
1916,  under  the  care  of  a  regularly  ordained 
priest,  at  Randolph  and  Des  Plaines  streets.  It 
is  a  home  for  unemployed  and  unfortunate  men, 
without  regard  to  race,  creed,  or  color,  and  is  a 
place  where  Christ's  minister  will  extend  a  help- 
ing hand  to  the  men  whom  the  world  refers  to 
as  the  "down-and-out"  class.  It  will  help  them 
to  regain  their  self-respect,  to  put  them  on  their 
own  feet  and  help  to  keep  them  there. 

Illinois  Technical  School  for  Colored  Girls 
was  formerly  the  Chicago  Industrial  School  for 
Girls.  It  is  conducted  by  the  Sisters  of  the 
Good  Shepherd  for  colored  girls  who  are  sent 
there  by  the  court  or  left  by  a  relative  who  can- 
not care  for  them  at  home.  During  the  year 
about  125  girls  were  cared  for.  The  expense  of 
the  home  is  borne  partly  by  the  court,  partly  by 

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charity.  During  the  year  1913,  the  expense  was 
over  $23,700,  of  which  over  $5,000  was  con- 
tributed. 

Homes  for  the  Aged:  Five  places  are  con- 
ducted for  those  who  have  reached  the  age  when 
they  can  no  longer  care  for  themselves  and  have 
no  one  to  provide  for  them.  In  these  institutions 
there  is  absolutely  no  charge.  Only  those  who 
are  without  money  and  without  a  home  will  be 
accepted.  The  institutions  depend  for  their  ex- 
penses on  the  charity  of  friends  and  what  is 
collected  by  the  sisters.  No  salaries  of  any  kind 
are  paid.  During  the  year  1915,  774  old  people 
were  provided  for  by  the  sisters.  The  homes 
are  St.  Joseph's  Home  for  the  Aged  (two 
branches),  Sacred  Heart  Home,  Convent  of  the 
Little  Sisters  of  the  Poor;  and  in  connection 
with  St.  Joseph's  Home  for  Working  Girls,  there 
is  a  home  for  aged  ladies,  but  these  pay  for  their 
maintenance.  In  this  home  there  are  36  inmates. 
There  is  also  a  night  refuge  for  homeless  women 
and  children  where  1,500  have  been  cared  for 
during  the  year  1915.  St.  Anne's  Home  for  the 
Aged  at  Techny,  Illinois,  is  connected  with  the 
Chicago  Diocese,  because  it  is  from  Chicago  it 
receives  most  of  its  inmates;  it  has  cared  for  78 
old  people  during  the  year.     These  are  able 

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to  pay  for  the  care  they  receive.  At  1100  South 
May  Street  is  a  Catholic  home  for  young  women 
and  girls  employed  in  the  stores,  offices,  and  shops 
of  Chicago.  Some  150  girls  take  advantage  of 
this  home  daily.  At  1120  South  Orleans  Street 
is  the  House  of  Providence,  a  home  for  women 
with  or  without  employment,  and  in  connection 
with  this  there  is  a  working  girls'  home.  In  all, 
200  are  accommodated  here  every  day.  Other 
working  girls'  homes  are  Mercy  Home,  2834 
South  Wabash  Avenue,  with  100  inmates,  Our 
Lady  of  Perpetual  Help,  with  20  inmates,  and 
St.  Patrick's  Settlement,  in  charge  of  the  Sisters 
of  Charity  of  St.  Vincent  de  Paul.  At  the  latter 
place  working  girls  can  receive  a  warm  lunch  at 
noon  at  cost  price.  The  settlement  is  being  sup- 
ported by  the  Aid  Society. 

Catholic  Hospital  Association  was  formed 
in  August,  1910,  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  the 
deserving  poor  who  were  in  need  of  hospital  care 
and  had  not  the  means  of  providing  this.  The 
first  collection  was  a  tag  day,  the  proceeds  of 
which  were  distributed  to  the  Chicago  Hospital 
Day  Association,  the  Chicago  Baptist  Hospital, 
and  the  Catholic  Hospital  Association.  A  col- 
lection was  also  taken  in  all  the  Catholic  churches 
throughout  Chicago,  and  the  society  has  not  yet 

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felt  the  need  of  another.  The  fund  is  used  for 
people  of  all  creeds  and  nationalities  and  is  paid 
to  all  hospitals  without  distinction,  one  dollar  a 
day  being  allotted  for  each  deserving  patient. 
There  are  no  officers'  salaries  or  rental  paid. 
Every  dollar  of  the  fund  is  available  for  the  one 
purpose,  charity  to  the  needy  sick.  In  this  con- 
nection should  be  mentioned  the  Chicago  Hos- 
pital Day  Association,  the  funds  for  which  are 
for  Catholic  and  non-Catholic  deserving  poor. 

The  Catholic  Forester  Club  occupies  the  en- 
tire tenth  floor  of  the  Venetian  Building,  which 
has  been  rented  by  the  Women's  Catholic 
Order  of  Foresters  to  provide  rest,  recreation 
and  entertainment  for  self-supporting  girls  em- 
ployed in  the  loop.  Though  the  primary  idea 
is  a  rest-room  for  the  employed  girls,  a  more 
permanent  effect  intended  by  the  Lady  For- 
esters will  be  to  train  and  advance  girls  and 
young  women  and  to  enable  them  to  continue 
their  education  while  earning  their  living. 

The  Catholic  Women's  League  is  a  society 
of  Catholic  women  banded  together  for  mutual 
counsel,  philanthropic  and  educational  work. 
The  philanthropic  department  is  divided  into 
five  sections  known  as  St.  Mary's  Settlement 
and  Day  Nursery,  St.  Elizabeth's  Day  Nursery, 

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St.  Anne's  Day  Nursery,  St.  Juliana's  Day 
Nursery,  and  the  Catholic  Women's  League 
Protectorate.  The  Day  Nurseries  are  open 
from  6  A.  M.  to  7  p.  m.,  with  the  exception  of 
Sundays  and  legal  holidays.  A  fee  of  10 
cents  a  day  is  charged,  except  in  cases  in  which 
even  this  small  amount  would  be  a  burden  to 
a  working  mother.  The  nurseries  depend  for 
their  support  on  the  Catholic  Women's  League 
and  the  donations  of  a  generous  public.  An 
average  of  100  children  is  cared  for  in  this  way 
daily.  In  connection  with  St.  Mary's  Day 
Nursery  there  have  been  added  Kindergarten, 
Sewing  Classes,  Dancing  Classes,  and  a  Free 
Dispensary.  In  connection  with  St.  Anne's  there 
is  a  kindergarten;  with  St.  Juliana's  a  kinder- 
garten, a  girls'  club,  and  a  library.  The  Pro- 
tectorate was  established  in  1911  at  7  West 
Madison  Street  for  the  safeguarding  of  young 
girls,  regardless  of  race  or  creed.  Its  chief  aim 
is  preventive  work,  offsetting  the  machinations 
of  those  who  have  evil  designs  in  seeking  out 
young  girls.  The  Protectorate's  part  in  the 
Traveler's  Aid  Society  of  Chicago  and  Illinois 
is  caring  for  Catholic  girls  who  on  arriving  in 
Chicago  are  found  to  be  in  need  of  care.  The 
statistics  for  the  year  ending  April,  1916,  show 

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925  girls  were  found  employment,  893  removed 
from  evil  influences  and  put  in  the  way  of  living 
comforta))ly  and  properly,  63  returned  to  their 
homes  in  various  parts  of  the  United  States 
and  1  to  Em'ope,  and  518  cases  handled  in  other 
ways. 

The  Volunteers  of  America  :  This  organi- 
zation operates  seven  institutions  in  Chicago,  as 
follows : 

Children's  Day  Nursery,  1213  Washington 
Boulevard,  takes  care  of  about  6,000  children 
a  year,  and  has  been  approved  by  the  leaders  of 
most  of  the  day  nurseries  in  Chicago.  Each 
child  is  bathed,  and  proper  and  sufficient  cloth- 
ing distributed,  and  wholesome  food  and  neces- 
sary medical  attention  provided. 

Young  Women's  Home,  501  South  Ashland 
Boulevard,  is  not  a  rescue  home,  but  a  place 
where  any  young  girl  can  find  shelter  and  protec- 
tion, where  she  can  secm'c  a  place  to  stay  until 
she  finds  work,  and  a  Christian  home  after  secur- 
ing employment.  The  girls  pay  $2.50  or  $3.50 
a  week  when  they  can  do  so. 

Hope  Hall  is  a  volunteer  institution  where 
men  from  Joliet  Penitentiary  and  like  institu- 
tions, after  being  paroled,  often  without  a  friend 
in  the  world,  can  go  and  stay  until  they  are  in  a 

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Work     of     Religious     Organizations 

condition  to  work  and  can  find  suitable  employ- 
ment. Last  year  649  men  were  cared  for.  The 
cost  of  this  institution  last  year  was  $7,9.56.00, 
none  of  the  men  having  been  charged  a  single 
penny. 

Old  Ladies'  Home,  3334  Warren  Avenue, 
has  for  its  object  the  provision  of  a  home  for 
elderly  women  who  cannot  feel  at  home  with 
young  girls,  charging  a  reasonable  amount  for 
board  and  lodging.  It  has  had  every  bed  filled, 
and  during  the  two  years  it  has  been  in  operation 
it  has  justified  its  existence,  because  of  the  piti- 
ful cases  that  have  been  handled  there. 

Fresh'Air  Camp  is  located  near  Benton  Har- 
bor, Michigan.  There  are  about  16  acres  of  land 
on  which  have  been  erected  twenty  buildings. 
The  camp  has  1,500  feet  frontage  on  the  lake, 
and  affords  excellent  bathing  facilities  for  the 
poor  women  and  children  who  are  taken  out  for 
two  weeks  free  of  charge  during  the  summer 
time.  This  was  the  first  camp  of  its  kind  ever 
operated  for  Chicago.  Last  year  23,500  meals 
were  served. 

Volunteer  Headquarters:  The  headquarters 
building,  which  was  purchased  some  five  years 
ago,  is  situated  in  one  of  the  most  needy  neigh- 
borhoods in  the  city.  In  addition  to  the  executive 

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offices  ol  the  Illinois  incorporation  of  the  Volun- 
teers of  America,  the  following  departments  are 
located  here: 

Emergency  Relief  Department  is  really  an 
institution  in  itself,  and  is  run  in  accordance  with 
the  latest  practices  of  social  reform  ideas.  There 
is  a  large  stock  room  loaded  with  groceries,  furni- 
ture, and  clothing.  This  department  has  found 
homes  for  several  babies,  and  during  the  four 
winter  months  of  1915-1916,  08,633  meals  were 
given,  5,480  garments  were  distributed,  1,001 
famihes  were  provided  with  fuel,  and  other  simi- 
lar services  rendered. 

Manual  Training  School  is  all  that  could  be 
desired  for  a  school  of  its  kind.  There  are  half 
a  dozen  lathes,  band  saws,  circular  saws,  grind- 
stones, and  all  the  necessary  tools  for  making 
furniture,  pattern-making,  and  other  wood- 
working trades.  The  results  obtained  are  very 
gratifying.  Several  thousand  dollars  have  been 
put  into  this  department. 

The  Men's  Club  is  a  great  influence  for  good 
in  the  neighborhood.  The  clubroom  is  fitted 
up  with  all  suitable  furniture,  and  is  open  at  all 
times  for  the  members.  Every  Friday  night  a 
lecture  is  given  by  some  prominent  physician  on 

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some  subject  of  helpfulness,  and  many  of  the 
men  who  \\ill  not  attend  church  are  made  better 
by  their  attendance  at  this  club. 

The  Industrial  Department  is  for  the  pur- 
pose of  finding  employment  for  the  men  who  are 
helped  and  taking  care  of  them  in  as  economical 
a  manner  as  possible.  JNleals  furnished  in  191G 
were  53,702;  beds,  1,200;  positions  secured, 
2,132. 

Connected  with  this  Industrial  Department 
are  the  Men's  Hotel,  16  South  Des  Plaines 
Street,  where  a  clean  bed,  bath,  etc.,  for  transients 
and  others  in  the  city  may  be  had  for  10  cents  or 
15  cents;  the  Men's  Home,  where  the  industrial 
men  stay  who  work  on  the  wagons  and  in  the 
factory;  the  Men's  Mission,  wliich  is  run  spe- 
cially for  those  who  are  thronging  the  down-town 
districts,  and  from  which  many  men  have  been 
helped  to  good  situations  and  encouraged  to  lead 
a  better  life.  They  believe  here  in  giving  a  help- 
ing hand  to  the  man  who  is  down.  Some  41,000 
attended  these  meetings  during  the  past  year. 

The  Furniture  Repairing  Department,  car- 
pet making,  and  rag  and  paper  sorting  provide 
employment  for  many  of  the  men  who  are  out 
of  employment.    The  endeavor  is  made  to  have 

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the  assisted  men  do  something  for  what  they 
receive. 

The  free  Christmas  dinner  is  the  largest  of 
its  kind  in  the  city.  From  12,000  to  15,000  peo- 
ple are  fed  every  Christmas.  Some  idea  of  the 
magnitude  of  this  effort  can  be  gained  when  it 
is  known  that  4,500  pounds  of  turkey  and 
ch'cken,  3,000  pounds  of  roast  beef,  and  other 
supplies  in  proportion  were  required  to  feed 
these  people.  This  dinner  costs  over  $5,000.  The 
free  Christmas  tree  and  distribution  of  presents 
to  4,000  poor  children  supplied  each  child  with 
seven  articles,  including  clothing,  toys,  fruit,  and 
candy,  which  were  given  out  after  an  entertain- 
ment at  the  headquarters  building  on  Christmas 
Eve. 

The  Poor  Children's  Picnic  always  takes 
place  on  the  Thursday  before  school  closes  for 
the  summer  vacation.  About  12,000  children 
go  out  each  year  to  Washington  Park,  through 
the  courtesy  of  the  South  Park  Conmiissioners. 
The  Mayor  issues  a  proclamation  each  year  des- 
ignating the  "Outing  Day"  as  Children's  Day. 

All  these  institutions  and  charitable  depart- 
ments are  conducted  for  the  benefit  of  the  poor 
of  Chicago,  irrespective  of  creed,  color,  nation- 
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ality,  or  social  standing.  There  is  no  endowment 
fund  or  any  source  of  income  except  the  volun- 
tary contributions  which  friends  send  from  time 
to  time. 


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Chapter  X 
NEIGHBORHOOD  WORK 

T  T  NDER  this  title  may  be  grouped  four  gen- 

eral  classes  of  institutions :  ( 1 )  community 
churches  and  settlements  maintaining  religious 
instruction;  (2)  community  self-betterment  or- 
ganizations; (3)  social  centers;  and  (4)  settle- 
ments. 

Community  Churches  and  Settlements: 
There  are  at  least  35  religious  organizations 
which  maintain  social  service  activities  in  a  neigh- 
borhood, in  a  church  building  or  other  headquar- 
ters, or  that  employ  a  paid  social  worker.  Their 
general  purpose  is  to  promote  religious,  civic, 
and  social  betterment  of  the  community.  To 
accomplish  these  ends  their  work  is  broad  and 
liberal.  In  general,  in  addition  to  religious  work, 
they  maintain  kindergartens,  day  nurseries, 
library  and  reading  rooms,  vacation  homes,  sum- 
mer schools,  gymnasiums,  classes  in  industrial 
work,  dispensaries,  playgrounds,  employment 
bureau,  clubs  for  literary,  dramatic,  civic,  and 
social  instruction,  and  visitation  and  relief  work 
for  the  needy. 

Community  Self-Betterment  Organiza- 
tions:   These  organizations  are  developed  by  the 

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community  itself,  for  the  betterment  of  the  peo- 
ple. There  are  about  ten  of  these,  and  their  work 
covers  a  wide  field  as  to  betterment  of  social, 
athletic,  educational,  and  general  civic  conditions. 

Social  Centers:  These  centers  include 
neighborhood  organizations,  both  public  and  pri- 
vate, to  promote  social  service  acti^aties  as  their 
chief  function,  and  are  conducted  by  workers 
who  are  not  in  residence  at  the  center.  The  Chi- 
cago Board  of  Education  maintains  about  25  of 
these  centers.  In  addition  there  are  at  least  10 
very  important  private  centers.  Among  these 
the  Chicago  Hebrew  Institute  has  37  depart- 
ments and  65  clubs.  In  their  night  school  they 
instruct  500  immigrants  annually. 

Settlements:  Under  this  heading  may  be 
grouped  the  institutions  that  have  a  definite 
group  of  workers  living  at  the  location  in  which 
they  maintain  the  social  activities.  There  are 
about  seventeen  important  ones  in  Chicago. 
They  are  centers  for  improving  civic  and  social 
life.  They  initiate  and  maintain  educational  and 
philanthropic  enterprises,  coupled  with  improv- 
ing conditions  of  recreation,  morality,  and  train- 
ing in  citizenship.  The  spirit  and  aim  of  these 
settlements  is  to  discover  and  demonstrate  and 
interpret  the  needs  of  the  people  in  the  com- 

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munity;  to  initiate,  try  out,  test,  and  approve 
efforts  and  agencies  to  meet  these  needs ;  to  ascer- 
tain the  effects  and  causes  of  deterioration  and 
supply  the  conditions  or  apply  the  forces  which 
will  prevent  or  remedy  it;  to  promote  the  ideals 
of  progress  and  help  correlate  all  the  public  and 
personal  resources  available  for  their  realization. 
When  the  need  and  the  method  of  meeting  it  are 
sufficiently  demonstrated  to  enable  other,  more 
adequate,  agencies,  public  or  private,  to  take  over 
such  functions,  the  spirit  of  the  settlement  is  that 
of  willingness  and  readiness  to  give  up  any  line 
of  its  endeavor  which  can  more  readily  be  prose- 
cuted by  a  department  of  the  local  government 
or  by  better-equipped  voluntary  agencies.  The 
work  of  these  various  settlements  is  so  important 
as  to  warrant  special  consideration  of  the  impor- 
tant ones. 

Chicago  Commons,  955  W.  Grand  Avenue, 
was  established  in  1894  and  incorporated  in  1895. 
Its  object  is  to  provide  a  center  for  higher  civic 
and  social  life,  to  initiate  and  maintain  educa- 
tional and  philanthropic  enterprises,  and  to  in- 
vestigate and  improve  conditions  in  the  industrial 
districts  of  Chicago.  It  affords  educational,  so- 
cial, and  recreational  opportunities  for  children 
and  adults,  with  training  for  citizenship.    Within 

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Human    Welfare    \Vork    in    Chicago 

the  house  there  is  the  general  work  of  tlie  va- 
rious chihs,  the  lihrary,  penny-savings  hank,  day 
nursery,  and  headquarters  for  infant  welfare 
work.  Its  class  work  covers  manual  training, 
metal  work,  hasketry,  weaving,  coopering,  sew- 
ing, millinery,  laundry,  gymnasium,  dancing, 
music,  English,  elocution,  and  kindergarten.  In 
addition  it  reaches  out  in  the  neighborhood  work 
and  summer  work.  It  is  in  city-wide  cooperation 
with  official  and  voluntary  social  and  civic  agen- 
cies. 

Eli  Bates  House,  621  W.  Elm  Street,  was 
formerly  the  Unity  and  Elm  Street  Settlements. 
It  was  established  in  1884,  and  incorporated  in 
1900.  Its  object  is  to  encourage  a  higher  civic 
and  social  life  in  the  community.  It  maintains 
in  a  mixed  factory  and  tenement  quarter,  chiefly 
Italian,  a  day  nursery,  kindergarten,  and  educa- 
tional, social,  and  civic  work.  It  includes  activi- 
ties for  both  girls  and  boys,  a  trade  school,  an 
industrial  center,  and  the  bureau  of  citizenship. 
Its  work  being  in  a  densely  settled  factory  and 
tenement  district,  where  the  conditions  are  most 
unsatisfactory,  and  where  are  living  Sicilian 
peasant  laborers  (in  fact  or  in  origin),  it  partic- 
ularly deals  witli  the  betterment  of  immigrants. 

Emerson  House,  1746  Grand  Avenue,  was 

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ELI    BATES   HOUSE 
A   comiiniiiitv   lioiise   nf   lone;  standing. 


THE  DAY   NURSERY 
Eli  Bates  House. 


THE   YOUNG  MEN'S   CLUB 
Eli  Bates  House. 


THE  DOMESTIC  SCIENCE  CLASS 
Eli  Bates  House. 


N  e  i  ^'  h  b  o  r  li  o  o  d     AV  o  r  k 


established  in  1911,  to  promote  a  neighborhood 
center  for  the  development  of  social  education 
and  civic  resources  of  the  community  in  which 
it  exists.  It  maintains  a  kindergarten,  library, 
educational  classes,  clubs,  day  nursery,  and  chil- 
dren's chorus. 

Esther  Falkenstein  Settlement,  1907  N. 
Richmond  Street,  was  established  in  1900,  with 
the  object  of  improving  the  neighborhood 
through  supplying  educational  and  social  advan- 
tages. It  provides  work,  personal  service,  legal 
advice,  relief,  vacations,  and  hospital  care. 

Fellowship  House,  831  W.  33rd  Place,  was 
established  in  1893,  as  the  Helen  Heath  Settle- 
ment, and  was  incorporated  under  its  present 
name  in  1905.  It  is  non-sectarian,  and  seeks  to 
promote  neighborly  friendliness.  It  provides 
clubs,  a  sewing  school,  a  library,  a  penny-savings 
bank,  social  entertainments,  kindergarten,  and  a 
day  nursery. 

Frederick  Douglass  Center,  3032  Wabash 
Avenue,  was  established  in  1904,  to  promote  good 
relations  between  white  and  colored  people,  and 
particularly  to  remove  the  disabilities  from  which 
the  latter  suffer,  in  a  quarter  containing  the  lar- 
gest colored  population.  It  maintains  a  library, 
reading  room,  classes,  clubs,  and  playgrounds; 

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Human     Welfare    Work    in    Chicago 

it  promotes  outings,  investigations,  and  furnishes 
legal  advice. 

Gad's  Hill  Center,  1919  W.  20th  Street,  was 
established  in  1898,  to  provide  a  neighborhood 
center  cooperating  with  the  community  and  out- 
side agencies  to  secure  better  social,  economic,  and 
moral  conditions  in  the  district.  It  furnishes  a 
place  where  men  and  women  of  education  may 
come  in  friendly  contact  ^vith  those  less  for- 
tunate. It  is  located  in  a  factoiy  district,  where 
the  population  is  chiefly  Polish.  It  maintains  a 
playground,  clubs,  classes,  employment  bureau, 
and  furnishes  concerts. 

Henry  Booth  House,  701  W.  14th  Place,  was 
established  in  1898,  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Chicago  Ethical  Society,  as  a  neighborhood  cen- 
ter for  education,  citizenship,  recreation,  and  cul- 
tm-e.  It  is  located  in  the  center  of  the  junk,  iron, 
and  metal  trade  district,  midway  between  the 
Je^^^sh,  Italian,  and  Slavonic  districts.  It  main- 
tains clubs,  classes,  neighborhood  visiting,  kinder- 
garten, sick  baby  tents,  and  civic  activities. 

Hull  House,  800  So.  Halsted  Street,  was  one 
of  the  first  American  settlements,  and  was  estab- 
lished in  1889,  to  provide  a  center  for  higher 
civic  and  social  life;  to  institute  and  maintain 
educational  and  philanthropic  enterprises,  and  tO 

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X  e  i  g  h  b  o  r  li  o  o  d     ^^^  o  r  k 

investigate  and  improve  the  conditions  in  the  in- 
dustrial districts  of  Chicago.  It  is  located  in  a 
mixed  factory  and  tenement  quarter,  surrounded 
chiefly  by  Jewish,  Italian,  and  Greek  colonies. 
It  maintains  public  lectures,  classes,  boys'  club, 
various  social  clubs,  library,  game  room,  summer 
camp,  coffee  house,  theater,  children's  building, 
and  furnishes  instruction  in  industrial  arts.  It 
is  governed  by  a  self-perpetuating  body  of  trus- 
tees, elected  for  a  period  of  seven  years.  It  has 
a  large  corps  of  residents  to  take  charge  of  the 
various  activities.  These  residents  defray  their 
own  expenses  of  lodging  and  board,  and  are 
pledged  to  remain  for  at  least  two  years.  Some 
9,000  people  come  to  Hull  House  each  week 
during  the  winter  months,  either  as  members  of 
organizations  or  as  parts  of  audiences.  It  holds 
an  annual  exhibition  each  year,  to  present  the 
work  of  the  studio,  and  of  the  technical  classes. 
It  has  a  college  extension  course  whereby  public 
lectures  are  furnished.  It  has  regular  classes  of 
adults  organized  for  the  purpose  of  acquiring 
special  knowledge,  at  an  expense  of  about  $3.00 
a  week  for  board  and  school  expenses.  It  has 
both  elementary  classes  in  the  ordinary  branches 
of  education,  and  advanced  classes  in  literature, 
economics,  hygiene,  and  voice  training.     It  has 

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II  lima  n     Welfare     Work    in    Chicago 

classes  in  arts  and  crafts,  in  which  there  is  in- 
struction in  textile  work,  in  weaving,  in  metal  and 
enamel  work,  in  wood,  in  pottery,  and  in  binding. 
Its  reading  room  is  filled  every  day  and  evening, 
largely  by  foreign-speaking  men.  They  have  the 
use  of  the  small  libraries  in  the  various  languages, 
including  periodicals.  It  has  classes  in  domestic 
arts,  in  trade  schools,  in  studio  work,  and  in 
music.  It  has  a  large  club  for  women,  clubs  for 
boys,  and  social  clubs.  Its  general  work  is  so 
broad  and  thorough  as  to  make  it  a  model  of  set- 
tlement work. 

Maxwell  Street  Settlement,  1214  So.  Clinton 
Street,  was  established  in  1893,  for  civic,  social, 
and  educational  work  in  the  neighborhood.  It  is 
maintained  by  the  Associated  Jewish  Charities. 
It  is  equipped  with  gjinnasium,  clubs,  classes, 
reading  room,  school  of  practical  housekeeping, 
and  penny-savings  bank.  It  furnishes  entertain- 
ments, summer  vacation  work,  and  outings. 

Neighborhood  House,  6710  So.  May  Street, 
was  established  in  1896,  to  provide  a  neighbor- 
hood center  for  educational  activities  in  the 
Southwest  Side  of  the  city.  It  is  supported  by 
residents  and  friends,  and  is  non-sectarian.  It  is 
equipped  with  clubs,  classes,  domestic  science  in- 
struction, and  a  boys'  band.    It  has  a  large  hall 

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THE  PK.1YGR0UND  AND  BABY  TENTS 

Tlie   Northwestern    I'nivorsity   Settlement. 


THE  SANDPILE  ON  THE  ROOF  GARDEN 
The   Northwestern   University   Settlement. 


THE   HOUSE    OF    THE    IXTERPHETEK 
Tlie   Xorthwestern    Inivorsitv    Settlement. 


THE  MOTHERS'  CLUB 
Tlio    Xortliwcstcni    Uiii\cisit\'    Scjtlciiiciit. 


X  e  i  g  h  b  o  r  h  c)  o  d     W  o  r  k 


for  assemblies,  and  i'urnisbes  entertainments 
under  supervision. 

Northwestern  University  Settlement,  14.00 
Augusta  Street,  was  established  in  1891,  and 
incorporated  in  1898.  It  has  for  its  object  the 
promotion  of  better  social  and  living  conditions 
in  the  neighborhood.  It  maintains  a  gymnasium, 
kindergarten,  classes,  clubs,  playground,  summer- 
hospital  tents,  laundry  school,  and  a  branch  of 
the  Chicago  Public  Library.  It  furnishes  fresh- 
air  work. 

St.  Mary's  Settlement  Day  Nursery,  656  W. 
44th  Street,  was  established  in  1893,  to  care  for 
the  children  of  working  mothers.  It  is  non-sec- 
tarian, and  is  supported  by  voluntar}^  contribu- 
tions. It  provides  employment,  conducts  sewing 
classes,  kindergarten,  and  clubs  for  boys  and 
girls. 

South  Deering  Neighborhood  Center,  10750 
Hoxie  Avenue,  was  established  in  1913,  to  build 
up  the  life  of  the  community  in  cooperation  with 
neighborhood  organizations,  by  educating  the 
foreign  people,  providing  recreation  and  non- 
denominational  assistance.  It  is  supported  by 
industrial  firms  and  people  of  the  community. 
It  maintains  a  night  school  for  men,  leagues  and 
clubs  for  boys,  classes  for  girls  in  weaving  and 

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15 


Human    Welfare    Work    in    Chicago 

sewing;  it  provides  stereopticon  lectures,  com- 
munity gardens,  and  summer  camps  for  boys, 
and  a  vacation  school. 

South  End  Center,  88th  Street  and  Buffalo 
Avenue,  was  established  in  1907,  to  promote  the 
physical,  educational,  social,  and  civic  welfare  of 
the  community.  It  is  non-sectarian,  and  main- 
tains in  the  South  Chicago  industrial-quarter 
clubs,  classes,  a  free  employment  agency,  and  a 
free  medical  dispensary. 

The  University  of  Chicago  Settlement,  4630 
Gross  Avenue,  was  established  in  1894,  and  in- 
corporated in  1898.  Its  object  is  to  provide  a 
center  for  civic  and  social  center  work,  to  pro- 
mote industrial  and  social  progress,  neighbor- 
hood unity,  help  in  the  securing  of  better  con- 
ditions for  the  neighborhood  and  for  the  city.  It 
is  located  in  the  industrial,  cosmopolitan  com- 
munity adjacent  to  the  stockyards.  It  main- 
tains a  library,  kindergarten,  and  resident  nurse. 
It  furnishes  entertainments,  lectures,  classes,  in- 
dustrial training,  clubs,  social  work  in  the  public 
schools,  summer  tent  for  sick  babies,  playgrounds 
for  kindergarten  children,  excursions,  and  out- 
ings. 

Wendell  Phillips  Settlement,  2009  Walnut 
Street,  was  established  in  1908,  to  provide  a  place 

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MAKING    TILES 
The  Univeisitj'  of  Chicago  Settlement. 


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THE  KIXDHRGARTEX 
The  University  of  Chicaffo  Settlement. 


Neighborhood     \V  o  r  k 


of  recreation  and  congregation  for  the  colored 
people  of  the  West  Side.  It  is  non-sectarian, 
and  maintains  a  reading  room,  clubs  and  classes, 
kindergarten,  and  day  nursery.  It  makes 
friendly  visits,  and  does  relief  work. 

Fundamentally,  settlement  work  means  get- 
ting into  the  life  of  a  neighborhood.  Settle- 
ments are  not  primarily  engaged  in  fighting 
evils,  but  in  finding  out  what  the  evils  are.  Their 
province  is  not  to  enforce  pre-formed  moral 
judgments,  but  to  form  new  ones.  Investiga- 
tion into  conditions  is  essential  to  inaugurate  re- 
forms and  betterment  in  a  neighborhood.  The 
moral  energy  of  a  community  can  be  aroused  only 
when  the  people  are  conscious  of  its  deficiencies, 
and  realize  that  they  may  become  part  of  those 
general  movements  which  make  for  reform. 

The  wide  range  of  settlement  activities,  ac- 
tuated by  the  spirit  which  makes  for  true  democ- 
racy and  intelligent  service,  works  toward  the 
improvement  of  human  nature,  and  causes  the 
settlement  to  stand  as  an  institution  in  a  com- 
munity. 


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APPENDICES 


APPENDIX  A 

LIST    OF    CHICAGO'S     PARKS,    PLAYGROUNDS, 
AND   BATHING   BEACHES 


SOUTH  PARK  CO^DIISSIONERS, 
57TH  STREET  AND  COTTAGE  GROVE  AVENUE 


Play- 


Axmour    Square 

Be&semer  Park   . 

Bumside  Playground 

Calumet  Park 

Cornell  Square 

Davis   Square 

Fuller  Park  . 

Gage  Park     . 

Grand     Crossing 
ground 

Grant  Park  . 

Hamilton  Park 

Hardin  Square 

Hegewisch  Playground. 

Irondale  Playground    . 

Jackson  Park 

Jaclcson  Park   P  1  a  y  - 
ground        .... 

Mark  White  Square     . 

Marquette  Park 

McKinley  Park 

Ogden  Park   . 

Palmer    Park 

Russell  Square 

Sherman  Park 

Washington  Park    . 

Washington  Park  Play- 
ground       .... 


W.  33rd  St.  and  Shields  Ave. 

E.  89th  St.  and  So.  Chicago  Ave. 

E.  90th  St.  and  St.  Lawrence  Ave. 

E.  101st  St.  and  the  Lake. 

51st  and  Wood  Sts. 

W.  45th  St.  and  Marshfield  Ave. 

W.  45th  St.  and  Princeton  Ave. 

Garfield    Blvd.    and    Western    Ave. 

E.  76th  St.  and  Ingleside  Ave. 

Lake  Front — Downtown. 

72nd  St.  and  Normal  Ave. 

W.  26th  St.  and  Wentworth  Ave. 

E.  130th  St.  and  Carondelet  Ave. 

E.  103rd  St.  and  Bensley  Ave. 

E.  56th  St.  and  the  Lake. 


E.  67th  St.  and  Stony  Island  Ave. 

W.  29th  and  Halsted  Sts. 

67th  St.  and  Kedzie  Ave. 

Western  Blvd.  and  Archer  Ave. 

67th  St.  and  Racine  Ave. 

E.  111th  St.  and  Indiana  Ave. 

83rd  St.  and  Bond  Ave. 

52nd  St.  and  Racine  Ave. 

E.  5l8t  St.  and  Cottage  Grove  Ave. 


E.  58th  St.  and  South  Park  Ave. 


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A  ])  p  e  n  (1  i  c  e  s 


WEST  CHICA(;0  I'APvK  CO.M.M  ISSIOXERS,  UNION  PARK 


Austin  Park 
Ck)npre8s  Park 
Douglas  Park 
Dvorak    Park 
Eckert  Park 
Garfield  Park 
Harrison  Park 
Holstcin  Park 
Humboldt   Park 
Pulaski  Park 
Sheridan  Park 
Stanford  Park 


W.   Adams   and    So.   Central    Ave. 

W.  Van  Buren  and  So.  Rockwell. 

W.  12th  St.  and  California  Ave. 

May  and  20th  Sts. 

Chicago  Ave.  and  Noble  >St. 

Kinzie  St.  and  Central  Park  Ave. 

W.  18th  and  Wood  Sts. 

No.  Oakley  Ave.  and  Hamburg  St. 

North  and  California  Aves. 

Noble  and  Blackhawk  Sts. 

May  and  Polk  Sts. 

W.  14th  PI.  and  Union  Ave. 


LINCOLN  PARK   COMMISSIONERS,   LINCOLN   PARK 


Hamlin  Park 

Lake  Shore  Playground 

Lincoln   Park 

Seward  Park 

Stanton  Park 

Welles  Park        .      .      . 


Hoyne    Ave.    and    Wellington     St. 

E.    Chicago   Ave.   and   the    Lake. 

Center  and  Clark  Sts. 

Elm   and   Sedgwick   Sts. 

Vedder   and   Vine   Sts. 

Montrose  Blvd.  and  Western  Ave. 


SPECIAL  PARK   COMMISSION,    1004   CITY  HALL 
Municipal  Playgrounds 


Adams  Playground  . 
Agassiz   Playground 
Audubon   Playground 
Beutner    Playground 
Bosley  Playground   . 
Burroughs  Playground 
Christopher  Playground 
Commercial    Club 
Corkery    Playground 
Dante  Playground    . 


Seminary  Ave.  and  Center  St. 
Seminary  Ave.  and  Wolfram  St. 
No.   Hoyne   and   Cornelia  Aves. 
.S.-ird  and  La  Salle  Sts. 
W.  3l8t  St.  and  Bonfield  Ave. 
36th  St.  and  Washtenaw  Ave. 
W.  22nd  and  So.  Robey  Sts. 
\\.  Chicago  and  No.  Lincoln  Aves. 
W.  2,5th  St.  and  So.  Kildare  Ave. 
Oilpin    PI.,    Forquer,    and    So.    Des 
Pliiines  Sts. 


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Drake  Playground    . 
Fiske  Playground 
Gary  Playground 
Graham  Playground 
Hamlin   Playground 
McCormiek    Playground 
MoLaren  Playground 
Mitchell  Playground 
Moseley  Playground 
Northwestern    Play 

gromid 
Oakland  Playground 

Orleans    Playground 
Robey  Playground  . 
Sampson  Playground 
Sherwood  Playground 
Thorp  Playground   . 
Washington  Playground 
Wrightwood  Playground 


Calumet   Ave.,   south   of  26tli    .St. 

E.   62nd  St.  and  Inglesidc  Ave. 

31st  St.  and  Lawndale  Ave. 

45th   St.  and  Union  Ave. 

W.  16th  St.  and  So.  Hamlin  Ave. 

W.  28th  St.  and  Sawyer  Ave. 

^^'.  Polk  and  Laflin  Sts. 

Oakley  Avo.  and  Ohio  St. 

24th  St.  and  Wabash  Ave. 

N.    W.    "L,"   Larrabee   and    Alaska 

Sts. 
Between  Langley  and  Cottage  Grove 

Aves.,  on  40th  St. 
Institute  PI.  and  Orleans  St. 
Robey  and  Birch  Sts. 
W.  15th  and  Loomis  Sts. 
57th  St.  and  Princeton  Ave. 
S9th  St.  and  Buffalo  Ave. 
No.  Carpenter  St.  and  Grand  Ave. 
AVrightwood    and    Greenview    Aves. 


Municipal    Playgrounds — Proposed    or    Under    Construction 
(All  of  the  following  are  in  school  yards) 


Auburn  Park 
Avondale  Playground 
Beale  Playground 
Belding  Playground 
Brentano  Playground 
Bryn  Mawr   . 
Burley  Playground 

Cameron  Playground 
Carter  Playground  . 
Clarke  Playground  . 
Colman  Playground 
Davis  Playground  . 
Delano  Playground. 


Normal  Ave.  and  W.  81st  St. 

No.    Sawyer   and   Wellington   Aves. 

Sangamon  and  61st  Sts. 

Tripp  and  W.   Cullom   Aves. 

No.  Fairfield  Ave.  and  Schubert  St. 

E.  74th  St.  and  Jeffrey  Ave. 

Barry    Ave.,    Between    Paulina    St. 

and  Ashland  Ave. 
Potomac  and  Monticello  Aves. 
E.  58th  St.  and  Michigan  Ave. 
W.  13th  St.  and  Ashland  Ave. 
I^arborn  St.,  North  of  47th  St. 
W.  39th  PI.  and  Sacramento  Ave. 
W.  Adams  St.  and  Springfield  Ave. 


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Appendices 


Doolittle  Playground    . 

Earle  Playground  . 
Emmet  Playground 
Field   Playground    . 

Franklin  Playground    . 

Fulton  Playground. 
Gallistel    Playground    . 
Gladstone  Playground  . 
Henry  Playground  . 
Kohn   Playground    . 
Lawson   Playground 
Le  Moyne  Playground  . 
Lloyd  Playground   . 
Marshall  Playground    . 

McCosh   Playground 

McPhereon    Playground 

Morse  Playground   . 
Mozart  Playground 
Nettlehorst  Playground 
Oglesby   Playground 
Otis   Playground 
Pickard  Playground 
Poe  Playground 
Easter  Playground  . 
Ryder  Playground   . 
Ryderson  Playground 
Scanlan   Playground 

Scott  Playground     . 

Spry  Playground     . 


E.  35th  St.,  Between  Cottage  Grove 

and  Rhodes  Aves. 
So.  Hermitage  Ave.  and  W.  Gist  St. 
W.  Madison  St.  and  Pine  Ave. 
No.    Ashland   Blvd.    and   Greenleaf 

Ave. 
Goethe  St.,  Between  Wells  and  Sedg- 
wick Sts. 
W.  53rd  St.  and  Hermitage  Ave, 
E.  104th  St.  and  Ewing  Ave, 
Robey  St.  and  Washburne  Ave. 
No.  St.  Louis  and  W.  Cullom  Aves. 
E.  104th  and  State  Sts. 
W.  13th  PI.  and  Homan  Ave. 
Rokeby  and  Addison  Sts. 
Dickens  and  No.  Lamon  Aves. 
W.  Adams  St.,  Between  Spaulding 

and  Kedzie  Aves. 
Champlain   Ave.,   Between   E.   65th 

and  E.  66th  Sts. 
No.    Lincoln    St.,    Between    Leland 

and  Lawrence  Aves. 
No,  Sawyer  Ave,  and  W.  Ohio  St. 
No.  Hamlin  and  Humboldt  Aves. 
Broadway  and  Aldine  Ave. 
Green  and  W.  77th  Sts. 
Armour  St,  and  Grand  Ave, 
So.   Oakley   Ave.   and   W.   21st  St. 
Langley  Ave.  and  E.  106th  St, 
Wood  and  W,  70th  Sts, 
Lowe  Ave,  and  W.  88th  St, 
Lawndale  Ave,  and  Huron  St, 
Perry    Ava,    Between    117th    and 

118th  Sts, 
Blackstone  Ave.,   Between  E.   64th 

and  E.  65th  Sts. 
Marshall   and   W.   24th    St.   Blvds. 


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Swift  Playground  . 
Swing  Playground  . 
Waters  Playground 


Wiuthrop   Ave.,    Between   Ardmore 

and  Thorndale  Sts. 
String   St.,   Between   W.    16th   and 

W.  18th  Sts. 
Wilson  and  No.  Campbell  Aves. 


Parks,  Squares,  Triangles,  Farm  Nursery,  and  Comfort 
Stations 


Adams  Park  . 
Aldine  Square    . 
Arcade   Park 

Auburn  Park 

Austin  Park 

Avers  Ave.  Parkway 

Arbor  Rest    . 

Archer  Point. 

Amy  L.  Barnard  Park 

Bickerdike  Square   . 

Blackstone  Point 

Buena   Circle 
Belden    Triangle 

Chamberlain  Triangle 

Columbus   Circle 

Colorado  Point  . 

Crescent  Park    . 

Dickinson  Park  . 


75th  PI.,  7r)th  St.,  Dobson  Ave. 

Vincennes  Ave.,  37th  PI. 

111th  PL,  112th  St.,  Forrestville 
Ave. 

Lagoon  Ave.,  Stewart  Ave.,  Winne- 
conna   Ave.,   Normal   Ave. 

Waller  Ave.,  Austin  Ave.,  Lake  St, 

Addison  St.  to  Avondale  Ave. 

Chestnut  St.,  Rush  St.,  Cass  St. 

Archer  Ave.,  20tli  St.,  Dearborn  St. 

105th  St.,  Between  Longwood  and 
Walden    Pkwys. 

Bickerdike  St.,  Ohio  St.,  Ashland 
PL,  Armour  St. 

Lake  Park  Ave.,  Blackstone  Ave., 
49th  St. 

Buena  Ave.  and  Kenmore  Ave. 

No.  Clark  St.,  Sedgwick  St.,  and 
Belden   Ave. 

Greenwood,  Lake  Park  Ave.,  43rd 
St. 

So.  Chicago  Ave.,  Exchange  Ave., 
92nd  St. 

Colorado  Ave.,  Monroe  St.,  Fran- 
cisco Ave. 

Crescent  Road,  Prescott  Ave.,  Or- 
monde Ave.  and  Graasmere  Road. 

No.  Lavergne  Ave.,  Dickinson  Ave., 
Belle  Plaine  Ave. 


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Dauphin  Park 

Douglas  Mom mu'iit  I'ark 

De   Kalb  Square 

East  End  Park   . 

Eldred  Grove 

Ellis  Park     .... 


Eijifhty  -  Seventh     Street 
Parkway    .... 
Eugenie  Triangle 

Fern  wood  Park  . 

Gage  Farm  and  Xursory 


Graceland    Triangle 
Gross  Park    .... 

Green  Bay  Triangle 
Harding   Ave.   Parkway 

Holden    Park 

Higgins  Road  Triangle. 
Irving  Park  .... 

Kedzie  Park 


87th    St.,    I.    C.    K.    H..    Olflt    St., 

Dauphin  Ave. 
Woodland   Park,  I.   C.   R.   R.,   35th 

St.,  alley  west  of  railway, 
I>exington  St.,  Hoyne  Ave.,   Flour- 

noy  St.,  De  Kalb  St. 
East  End  Ave.,   51st  St.,  5.3rd  St., 

Lake  Michigan. 
Norwood  Park  Ave.  and  C.  &  N.  W. 

Ry.,  Argyle  to  Ainslie  Sts. 
36th    St.,    37th    St.,    Langley    Ave., 

Elmwood   Court. 
In  87th  St.,  from  C,  R.  I.  &  P.  Ry. 

to  Eggleston  Ave. 
Eugenie    St.,    No.    Clark    St.,    Ijsi 

Salle  Ave. 
103rd   St.,   95th   St.,   Stewart   Ave., 

Eggleston   Ave. 
Bounded  by  22nd  St.  on  the  north 

and  26th  St.  on  the  south;   east 

section  line  1,400  ft.  west  of  Oak 

Park  Ave.,  extending  west  4,000 

ft.  outside  of  City  limits. 
Maiden   Ave.   and  Montrose  Blvd. 
Otto   St.,   Between   E.   Ravenswood 

and   Paulina    Sts. 
No.  State  St.,  Rush  St.,  Belleviie  PI. 
Harding  Ave.,  Between  Addison  and 

Byron   Sts. 
Lake    St.,    Indiana    Ave.,     Central 

Ave.,  Parkside  Ave. 
Higgins  Road  and  Milwaukee  Ave. 
C.  &  N.  W.  Ry.,  Irving  Park  Blvd., 

near  42nd  Ave. 
Kedzie    Ave.,    Between    Palmer    PI. 

and  North   Ave. 


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Appendix     A 


Kosciusko    Triangle 

Kiiizie    Parkway 

Lawrence  Ave.  Triangles 

Linden    Park 

Merrick    Park    . 

McKenna  Triangle 

Montrose  Point  . 

Mulberry  Point  . 

Myrtle  Grove 

Normal  Park 

Norwood  Circle  . 

Oakland  Park     , 
Ogden   Arrow 

Patterson  Park  . 
Pullman  Park     . 

Rice  Triangle 
Rocky  Ledge  Park 
Roberts  Square  . 

Rutherford   Park 

Sacramento  Ave.  Park- 
way        


Kosciusko    Triiinj^le,    Between    Mil- 
waukee   Ave.    and    No.    Melvina 

Ave. 
Kinzie    St„    Between    Laramie    St. 

and  Long  Ave. 
On   Lawrence   Ave.,   Between   Clark 

St.   and   Broadway. 
Avondale    Ave.,    C.   &    N.    W.    Ry., 

from  School  St.  to  Belmont  Ave. 
Pine   Ave.,   Long  Ave..    Indian   St., 

Kinzie  St. 
38th    St.,    Archer    Ave.,    Campbell 

Ave. 
Montrose     Ave.,      Sheridan      Road, 

Broadway. 
Nickerson    Ave.,    Nina    St.,    Nicolet 

St. 
Neva    Ave.,    Ninnewa    Ave.,    Hood 

Ave. 
67th   St.,   69th    St.,    T^we  Ave.,    C. 

&  W.  I.  R.  R. 
Neva    Ave.,    Peferson    Ave.,    Circle 

Ave. 
Lake  Park  Ave.,  39th  St.,  L  C.  K  R. 
No.    Clark    St.,    Wells    St.,    Ogden 

Front. 
Leavitt  St.,  Boone  St.,  De  Kalb  St. 
111th  St.,  111th  PI.,  Cottage  Grove 

Ave.,   Forrestville  Ave. 
Western  and  Grand  Aves. 
79th  St.  and  Lake  Michigan. 
Winnemae  Ave.,  No.  Laramie  Ave., 

Argyle  Ave.,  No.  Lockwood  Ave. 
Palmer  St.,  No.  Newland  Ave.,  No. 

Oak  Park  Ave.,  C,  M.  &  St.  P. 

R.  R. 
Sacramento    Ave.,    26th    St.,    and 

House  of  Correction. 


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Appendices 


Salt  Creek  Park  .  .  Salt  Creek  and  C,  B.  &  Q.  R.  R.,  at 
Brookfield. 

Schoenhofen  Place  .      .      Canal  St.,  Canalport  Ave.,  18th  St. 

Stony  Island  Parkway.      Stony  Island  Ave.,  C9th  St.  to  79th 

St. 

Twenty  -  Second  Street  In  22nd  St  from  40th  Ave.  to 
Parkway     ....         46th  Ave. 

The  Midway        .      .      .      Midway,  between  Waller  Ave.  and 

Austin  Ave. 

The  Ldly  Gardens    .      .      Lowe  Ave.,  C.  &  W.  I.  R.  R.,  71  at, 

73rd  St. 

The  Railway  Gardens  .      Avondale  Ave.,  Nettleton  Ave.,  and 

Raven  St.,  south  of  0.  &  N.  W. 
Ry.,  also  on  Norwood  Park  Ave., 
north  of  C.  &  N.  W.  Ry. 

Washington    Square      .      No.    Clark    St.,    Walton    PL,    No. 

Dearborn  St.,  Delaware  PI. 

West  End  Parkway  .  In  West  End  Ave.,  from  Menard 
Ave.  to  Austin  Ave.,  and  South 
Parkway  of  West  End  Ave.,  Be- 
tween No.  Waller  Ave.  and  East 
End  Parkway. 

Winnemac    Park      .      .      Robey  St.,  Foster  Ave.,  Argyle  St., 
Washington    Heights         Leavitt  St. 

Park Vincennes  Road  and  104th  St. 

Triangle Belmont    Ave.,     Elston    Ave.,    and 

California   Ave. 
Triangle W.    69th    St.,    Vincennes    Rd.    and 

Lafayette  Ave. 
Triangle Blue    Island    Ave.,    16th    St.,    and 

Throop  St. 
Parkway        ....      Center   of   Canal    St.,   Between   W. 

43rd   St.   and   44th   St. 
Tract Fronting  on  Montgomery  Ave.,  west 

of    Rockwell    St.,    north    of    W. 

42nd  St. 

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Appendix     A 

COMMUNITIES 

Chicago  University  Settlement     .     41530  Grove  Ave. 

Gad's  Hill  Center  Playground     .      1919-23  \V.  20th  St. 

Hyde  Park  Center 54th    St.   and    Lake   Park 

Ave. 

North  Ave.  Playground     .      .      .     Lincoln  Pkwy.  and  Chest- 
nut St. 

Northwestern    University    Settle- 
ment      Augusta  and  Noble  Sts. 

Union  Ave.  Methodist  Episcopal 

Church  Playground  .      .      .      .43rd  PI.  and  Union  Ave. 

ADDITIONAL   PARK   COMMISSIONS    WITH   PARKS 

Calumet  Park  Commission    .      .      Morgan  Park. 
Edison  Park  Commission       .  Edison  Park. 

Fernwood  Park  Commission  .      .      W.     103rd     and     Stewart 

Ave. 
Irving  Park  Commission  .  Irving    Park    Blvd.     and 

No.  Springfield  Ave. 
North  Shore  Park  Commission    .      Pratt    St.    and    Sheridan 

Road. 
North  West  Park  Commission     .      2732  No.  Av^ers  Ave. 
Old  Portage  Park  Commission    .      5562  Irving  Park  Blvd. 
Ridge  Avenue  Park  Commission  .      2239  Lunt  Ave. 
Ridge  Park  Commission    .  96th    St.    and    Longwood 

Ave. 
West  Pullman  Park  Commission     West  Pullman,  111. 


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APPENDIX  B 

LIST    OF    CHICAGO'S    CHARITABLE 
ORGANIZATIONS* 

CHILD  WELFARE  ASSOCIATIONS  AND  OFFICES 

Bureau  of  Personal  Service  .            .  1800  Selden  St. 

Child  Study  Dept.,  Chicago  fSoard 

of   Education 7   So.  Dearborn  St. 

Chicago    Daily     News    Fresh    Air  Fullerton     Ave.     and     Lake 

Fund  for  Sick  Babies  ....  Michigan. 

Cook  County  Bureau  of  Public  Wel- 
fare       722  County  Bldg. 

Elizabeth  McCorraick  Memorial  Fund  315  Plymouth  Ct. 

Illinois  Dept.  of  Factory  Insi>ection  1.54.3,608  So.  Dearborn  St. 

Infant  Welfare  Society   .  104  So.  Michigan  Ave. 

Dependent  Children's  Department, 

Juvenile  Court 10th   Floor,   Court  House. 

Juvenile    Protective    Association    .  Sltt  So.   Halsted   St. 

Public    Defenders'    Association    of 

Boys'    Court      ......  Boy.s'  Cpurt.  County  Bldg. 

Public  Guardian  of  Cook  County   .  226  County  Building. 

Society  of  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  of 

Chicago 1318,  8  So.  Dearborn  St. 

CLUBS  FOR  BOYS  AND  GIRLS 


Big  Brothers  of  Chicago 
Chicago  Boy  Scouts  of  America 
Chicago  Boys'  Club  .... 
Deborah  Boys'  Club  .... 
Hull  House  Boys'  Department  . 
Off-the-Street    Club    .... 


1818,209  So.  State  St. 
425,  39  So.  La  Salle  St. 
1725  Orchard  St. 
5930  South  Park  Ave. 
825  W.  Polk  St. 
1346  W.  Van   Buren   St. 


*  Compiled  from  Social  Service  Directory,  Public  Welfare, 
City  of  Chicago  and  classified  list  of  Philanthropic  and  Char- 
itable Orgranizations,  Association  of  Commerce,  City  of  Chlcag'o. 


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DAY  NURSERIES 


Aiken  Institute  Day  Nursery   . 
Archer  Road   Settlement  Day 

Nursery 

Armour  Mission  Kindergarten  . 
Bethesda  Day  Nursery   .... 

Bethlehem    Crc'che 

Chicago  Nursery  and  Half-Orphan 

Asylum 

Christopher  House  Day  Nursery    . 
Eli  Bates  House  Day  Nursery  . 
Elizabeth  Charlton  Day  Nursery   . 
Emerson  House   Association 
Guardian  Angel  Day  Nursery  and 

Home   for  Girls 

Helen  Day  Nursery 

Institutional  A.  M.  E.  Church  and 

Dearborn  Social  Settlement   . 
Lincoln  Street  M.  E.  Church  Day 

Nursery        

Little  Wanderer  Association  Day 
Nursery         

l^Iargaret  Etter  Creche 

Mary  Crane  Day  Nursery  and  Train 
ing   School     

Matheon  Day   Nursery    . 

Mennonite   Day   Nursery 

North   Avenue   Day   Nursery    . 

Ogontz  Day    Nursery 

Paulist  Day   Nursery 

Providence   Day   Nursery 

St.  Adalbert's  Day  Nursery 

St.  Ann's  Day  Nursery  . 

St.  Elizabeth's  Day  Nursery    . 

St.  Elizabeth's   Day   Nursery     . 

St.  Juliana's  Day  Nursery  . 


Cor.  Morgan  and  Monroe  Sta. 

239  W.  24th  St. 
Cor.  33rd  and  Federal  St». 
1902  W.  Monroe  St. 
235  W.  53rd  St. 

1932  Burling  St. 
1616  Fullerton  Ave. 
021  W.  Elm  St. 
100  Randolph  St. 
1746  Grand  Ave. 

4600  Gross  Ave. 
702  Barber  St. 

3825  So.    Dearborn    St. 

Cor.    Lincoln    St.    and   22nd 
PI. 

2116  W.  Chicago  Ave. 
2421  So.    Wabash   Ave. 

818  Gilpin  Place. 
955  W.  Grand  Ave. 
720  W.  2Gth  St. 
2138  W.  North  Ave. 
1600  AUport  St. 
919  So.  Wabash  Ave. 
3052  Gratten  Ave. 
1650  W.  17th  St. 
710  Loomis  St. 
2649  No.  Hamlin    Ave. 
906  No.  Franklin  St. 
858  Cambridge  Ave. 


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Appendix     B 

St.  Mary  and  St.  Agnes  Day  Nurs- 
ery        1461  Larrabee   St. 

St.  Mary's  Mission  Home,  Day  Nurs- 
ery and  Kindergarten  ....  850  Washington  Blvd. 

St.   Mary's   Settlement  .      .      .  G56  W.  44th  St. 

South  End  Center  Day  Nursery     .  8756  Buffalo  Ave. 

Stock  Yards  Day  Nursery  Asso- 
ciation       4758  Marshfield    Ave. 

Volunteers  of  America  Day  Nursery  1201  Washington    Blvd. 

Walmeta  Day  Nursery   ....  47  ^^^  47th  St. 

Workers'  Creche 2943  So.    Canal   St. 

Wendell  Phillips  Settlement     .      .  2009  Walnut  St. 

INSTITUTIONS    FOR   DEPENDENT   CHILDREN 

Bonnie  Hame  Association    .      .      .  826  Dakin  St. 

Bohemian  Old  People's  Home  and 

Orphan   Asylum 5061  No.  Crawford  Ave. 

Central  Baptist  Children's  Home  .  Maywood,  111. 

Chicago  Hebrew  Institute     .      .      .  1258  W.  Taylor  St, 

Chicago  Home  for  Jewish  Orphans  6208  Drexel  Ave. 

Chicago  Home  for  the  Friendless  .  5059  Vincennes  Ave. 

Chicago  Industrial   Home   for  Chil- 
dren      Woodstock,   111. 

Chicago  Nursery  and  Half  Orphan 

Asylum 1932  Burling  St. 

Chicago  Orphan  Asylum       .  5120  South  Park  Ave. 

Children's  Memorial  Hospital    .  735  Fullerton  Ave. 

Cook  County  Kinderheim  Cor.  Hirsch  Blvd.  and  Rock- 
well  St. 

Danish  Lutheran  Orphan  Home  3320  Evergreen  Ave. 

Evangelical  Lutheran  Home  Find- 
ing Society  of  Illinois  4840  Byron  St. 

German  Evangelical  Lutheran  Or- 
phan Home Addison,   111. 

German  Evangelical  Orplianage  and 

Old  People's  Home Bensenville,  111. 

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llepziluili    Home 

Home   for   Jewisli    Friendless   and 

Working  Girls 

Hlinois  Children's  Home  and  Aid 

Society 

Hlinois  Masonic  Orphan  Home 
Hlinois  Soldier's   Orphan   Home 
Nathan  Marks  Jewish  Orphan  Home 
Methodist   Deaconess   Orphanage    . 
Norwegian   Lutheran  Children's 

Home 

St.  Joseph's  Bohemian  Orphanage. 
St.  Joseph's  Catholic  Home  for  tlie 

Friendless 

St.  Mary's  Home  for  Cliildren  . 
St.  Vincent's    Infant   Asylum    . 
South  Side  Crippled  Children's  Aid 
Uhlich  Evangelical  Lutheran  Orphan 

Asylum 


iMl    W.  Lake  St.,  Oak 
Park,    111. 


.>228  Ellis  Ave. 


1818,209  So.  State  St. 
La  Grange,  HI. 
Normal,   111. 
l.)50  So.  Albany  Ave. 
Lake  Bluff,  111. 

Edison  Park,  111. 
Lisle,   111. 

3.5th  St.  and  Lake  Park  Ave. 
2822  Jackson  Blvd. 
721  No.  La  Salle  St. 
.3443  Vernon  Ave. 

2014  Burling  St. 


Dependent  Boys 

Allendale  Association      ....  Lake  Villa,  111. 

The  Boys'  Shelter  Club  ....  Lake  Villa,  111. 

Chicago   Home    for   Boys      .      .      .  1500  \Y.   Adams    St. 

Glenwood  Manual   Tiaining  School  Glenwood,   111. 
Kettler     Manual     Training     School 

for  Boys 2001  Devon  Ave. 

Lawrence  Hall 28.50  Lawrence  Ave. 

Lisle  Manual   Training   School  for 

Boya        Lisle,  111. 

Louise  Training  School  for  Colored 

Boys        6130  So.  Ada  St. 

Polish  Manual  Training  School  for 

Boys         Niles,  111. 

St.  Mary's  Training  School  .      .      .  Des  Plaines,  111. 

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Appendix     B 


Working  Boys'  Home  of  the   Mis- 
sion of  Our  Lady  of  Mercy   .  1132  W.  Jackson  Blvd. 

Workingnien's  Home  and  Mission 

(Colored) l:}:5!)-41    So.    State   St. 

Dependent  Girls 

Amanda   Smith   Industrial   School 

for    Girls Harvey,   111. 

Katharine  Kasper  Industrial 

School    for   Girls 2001  Devon  Ave. 

Chicago  Industrial  School  for  Girls     Des  Plaines,   111. 

Illinois    Technical    School    for    Col- 
ored   Girls 4910  Prairie  Ave. 

Lisle  Industrial  School  for  Girls   .      Lisle,   111. 

Park  Ridge  School  for  Girls     .      .      Park  Ridge,   111. 

St.  Hedwig's  Industrial   School  for 

Girls Niles,   111. 

PLACING   IN  FAMILIES 

Anti-Cruelty  Society  .      .      .      1.5.5  W.  Grand  Ave. 

Catholic  Home  Finding  Association 

of    Illinois 506  Hearst    Building. 

Central  Baptist  Children's  Home   .      504  First  Ave.,  Maywood,  111. 

Chicago  Industrial  Home  for   Chil- 
dren     Woodstock,  111. 

Child   Placing   Department,   Cook 

County    Juvenile    Court    .      .      .      10th   Floor,   Court  House. 

Evangelical  Lutheran  Home  Find- 
ing Society 4840  Byron  St. 

Illinois  Children's  Home  and  Aid 

Society 1818,209  So.  State  St. 

Illinois  State  Department  of  Visi- 
tation of  Children  Placed  in 
Family  Homes Springfield,   HI. 

Jewish   Home   Finding   Society   of 

Chicago 1800  Selden  St. 


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Methodist  Deaconess  Orphanage 
St.  Vincent's  Infant  Asylum  . 
Volunteers  of  America  Day  Nursery 


Lake  BlufT.  111. 

721  Xo.  La  Salle  St. 

1201  Washington   Blvd. 


CIVIC  BETTERMENT 


Chicago  Association  of  Commerce 
Chicago  Bureau  of  Public  Effi- 
ciency        

Chicago  Civil  Seriice  League   . 
Chicago  Single  Tax  Club 
Chicago  Women's  Aid 
Chicago  Political  Equality  League 
Chicago  Woman's  Club  . 
Citizens'  Association  of  Chicago 
City  Club  of  Chicago  .... 
Civic  Federation  of  Chicago 
Civil   Service  Reform  Association 

of  Chicago 

Committee  on  Public  Affairs 
Greater  Chicago  Federation 
Illinois  Bankers'  Association 
Industrial  Club  of  Chicago  . 
Juvenile  Protective  Association 
Municipal  Voters'  League  . 
Woman's  Association  of  Commerce 
W^oman's  City  Club 


10  So.  La  Salle  St. 


315  Plymouth  Ct. 
301,  189  W.  Madison  St. 
508,  G4  W.  Randolph  St. 
4622  Grand  Blvd. 
Congress  Hotel. 
410  So.  ^Michigan  Ave. 
911  Hartford  Bldg. 
315  Plymouth  Ct. 
804  The  Temple. 

35  No.  Dearborn  St. 
410  So.  Michigan  Ave. 
1152  No.  Ashland    Ave, 
208  So.  La  Salle  St. 
104  So.  Michigan  Ave. 
816  So.  Halsted  St. 
53  W.  Jackson  Blvd. 
1653  Monadnock  Bldg. 
116  So.  Michigan  Ave. 


PHYSICAI.  OONDITIONS 


American  Institute  of  Architects 
Chicago  Plan   Commission    . 
Chicago  Real  Estate  Commission 
Citizens'  Street  Cleaning  Bureau 
Cook  County  Real  Estate  Board 
Forest  Preserve  District  Associa- 
tion     110  So.  Dearborn  St. 


808,  64  E.  Van  Buren  St. 
314  Hotel  La  Salle 
20  No.  Dearborn  St. 
37  W,  Van  Buren  St. 
Ill  W.  Washington  St. 


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Friends  of  Our  Native  Landscape  .  108  E.  Walton  Place 
Geographic  Society  of  Cliicago  .      .  1649,  10  So.  La  Salle  St. 
National  Fire  Protection  Associa- 
tion   1029, 175  W,  Jackson  Blvd. 


PUBLIC  CULTURE 

Chicago  Band  Association   .      .      .  230  So.  La  Salle  St. 

Civic  Music  Association  of  Chicago  539,  410  So.  Michigan  Ave. 
Chicago     Woman's     Outdoor     Art 

League Fine  Arts  Bldg. 

Drama  League  of  Chicago  .  .  925  Fine  Arts  Bldg. 

Municipal  Art  League  of  Chicago  .  Art  Institute  Bldg. 


PUBLIC  HEALTH 

Chicago  Clean  Food  Club     .      .      .      116  So.  Michigan  Ave. 
Chicago  Medical    Society      .      .      .      1522,25  E.  W^ashington  St. 


PUBLIC  WELFARE 

Bureau  of  Volunteer  Service     .      .  519,  431  So.  Dearborn  St. 

Central  Bureau  of  Jewish  Charities  1800  Selden  St. 

Chicago  City  Gardens  Association.  7  So.  Dearborn  St. 

Chicago  Department  of  Public  Wel- 
fare       805  City  Hall  Square  Bldg. 

Chicago  Kindergarten    Club       .      .  c/o  Central    Eleanor    Asso- 
ciation,  Stevens  Bldg. 

Chicago  Peace  Society     .      .      .      .  116  S.  Michigan  Ave. 

Church  Peace    Union       .      .      .      .  116  S.  Michigan  Ave. 

Chicago  South  Side  Club     .      .      .  Cor.    Woodlawn    Ave.    and 

College  Alumni  Social  Service  Com-  46th  St. 

mission 19  So.  La  SaUe  St. 

Cooperative  League  of  America  1118,  8  So.  Dearborn  St. 

Illinois  Committee  on  Social 

Legislation 6th  Floor,  168  No.  Michigan 

Ave. 


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Appendices 


Immigrants'   Protective   League 
National    Association   for   the   Ad- 
vancement of  Colored   People 
Polish  Social  Workers'  Club     . 
Public  Safety  Commission    . 

Social  Service  Club 

Social  Service  Registration  Bureau 
South  Side  Garden  Club     .      .      . 


920  So.  Michigan  Ave. 

701  \V.  14th  Place. 
2126  Cortland  St. 
849  Otis  Bldg, 
1258  Taylor  St. 
108  No.  Michigan  Ave. 
4210  Calumet   Ave. 


CORRECTIONS 
Cook   County  Adult  Probation  De- 
partment   1128  Court  House. 

Chester  State  Hospital    ....      Menard,  111. 
Chicago    and    Cook    County    School     Gage    Farm,    22nd    St.    and 

Harlem  Ave. 
5024  Indiana  Ave. 
Cor.  Central  Park  and  Fos- 
ter Aves. 
3rd    Floor,    Criminal    Court 
Bldg. 


for  Boys  .... 
Chicago  Home  for  Girls 
CTiicago  Parental    School 


Cook  County  Bureau  of  Public  Wei 

fare,  Division  of  Jails 
Cook  County  Jail Cor.    Dearborn    and   Illinois 

Sts. 
House  of  Correction California   Ave.,    near    26th 

St. 
House  of  the  Good  Shepherd 
Illinois  State  Penitentiary 
Illinois  State  Reformatory  . 

Juvenile  Court 

Juvenile  Detention    Home 
Lincoln  State  School  and  Colony 
St.  Charles    School  for  Boys     . 

Sheriflf's    Office 4th  Floor,  Court  House 

State  Training  School  for  Girls  Geneva,   111. 


112«  Grace  St. 
Joliet,  111. 
Pontiac,  111. 
1007  Court  House. 
771   Gilpin  Place. 
Lincoln,  III. 
St.   Charles,   111. 


SOOIETIFS 
Bureau  of  Personal  Service  (Jew- 
ish)      1800  Selden  St. 


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Appendix     B 

Catholic  Women's  League,  Protec- 
torate        7  W.  Madison  St. 

The  Central  Howard  Association   .  1245,  440  So.  Dearborn  St. 

Hope  Hall  Volunteer  Prison  League .  U036  Raveuswood   Ave. 

Mission  of  Our  Lady  of  Mercy  and 

Working  Boys'  Home  .      .      .      .  1132  W.  Jackson  Blvd. 

New  Future  Association       .      .      .  356  E.  37th  St. 

Parting  of  the  Ways  Home  .      .      .  112  W.  22nd  St. 

Salvation  Army 069  So.  State  St. 


CLUBS  AND  CLASSES 

Women's  Trade  Union  League  of 

Chicago 166  W.   Washington   St. 

Yoimg  Men's  Christian  Association     19  So.  La  Salle  St. 

Young  Women's  Christian  Associa- 
tion     830  So.  Michigan  Ave. 


DEFECTIVES  AND  SUBNORMALS 

Department  of  Child  Study  and 
Educational  Research,  Board  of 
Education 800  Tribune  Building. 

Public  School  Centers  for  Blind 
Children,  Chicago  Board  of  Edu- 
cation        Tribune    Building. 

Xavier  Braille  Publication  Society 

for  the   Blind 824  Oakdale  Ave. 

Public  School  Centers  for  Crippled 
Children,  Chicago  Board  of  Edu- 
cation        Tribune  Building. 

Home  for  Destitute  Crippled  Chil- 
dren    1653  Park  Ave. 

Public  School  Centers  for  Deaf 
Children,  Chicago  Board  of  Edu- 
cation       Tribune  Building. 

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Ephpheta  School  for  the  Deaf  .      .      3100  No.  Crawford  Ave. 

Public  School  Centers  for  Epilep- 
tics, Chicago  Board  of  Educa- 
tion     Tribune   Building. 


IMMIGRANTS 


Armenian   Colonial   Association 
Chicago  Hebrew   Institute   . 
Immigrants'   Protective  League 
Infant  Welfare  Society   . 
Japanese    Christian    Association 
Polish  Education  Aid  Society   . 
Polish  Self -Help  Lea^e  . 
Serbian  National   Club    . 
Yovmg    Men's    Christian    Associa- 
tion, Immigration  Department 


837  No.  La  Salle  St. 
1258  W.   Taylor   St. 
920  So.  Michigan  Ave. 
104  So.  Michigan  Ave. 
3850  Lake  Park  Ave. 
1118  Noble  St. 
1133  W.  Chicago  Ave. 
3839  Monticello  Ave. 
19    So.    La   Salle   St., 
Floor. 


16th 


INDUSTRIAL 


Amanda  Smith  Industrial  School 
for    Girls 

Association  of  Practical  House- 
keeping Centers      .... 

Chicago  Board  of  Education,  In- 
dustrial and  Prevocational  Edu- 
cation      ..... 

Chicago  Boys'  Club   . 

Chicago  Hebrew  Institute 

Chicago  Hebrew   Mission 

Chicago  Women's    Aid    . 

Glenwood  Manual  Training  School 

Hull  House  Association  Boys'  Club 

Illinois  Technical  School  for  Col- 
ored  Girls 

Kettler  Manual  Training  School 
for  Boys 


Harvey,  111. 

813  Gilpin  Place. 

7  So.  Dearborn  St. 

1725  Orchard  St. 

1258  W.  Taylor  St, 

1425  Solon  Place. 

4622  Grand  Blvd. 

608,  160  W.  Jackson  Blvd. 

800  So.  Halsted  St. 

4910  Prairie  Ave. 

2001  Devon  Ave. 


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Appendix     B 


Lincoln  St.  M.  E.  Church   .      .      .  Cor.   Lincoln    St.   and  22nd 

Louise    Training   School    for   Col-  PI. 

ored    Boys 6130  So.  Ada  St. 

Maxwell    St.    Settlement   Associa- 
tion      1214  So.  Clinton  St. 

Methodist  Deaconess    Orphanage    .  Lake  Bluff,  111. 

Norwegian-Danish  Young  Woman's 

Christian  Home  Society   .      .      .  2137  Point  St. 

Off-the-Street  Club 1346  Van  Buren  St. 

Polish  Self -Help  League       .      .      .  1133  W.  Chicago  Ave. 

School  of  Domestic  Arts  and  Sci- 
ence      6  No.  Michigan  Ave. 

University  of  Chicago  Settlement 

Trade    School 4630  Gross  Ave. 


LIBRARIES  AND  MUSEUMS 

Chicago  Hebrew  Mission     .      .      .  1425  Solon  Place. 

Chicago  Historical  Society  .  Comer    Dearborn    and    On- 
tario St. 

Chicago     Public     Library      (and  Cor.  Washington     St.     and 

branches) Michigan  Ave. 

Chicago     School     of     Civics     and 

Philanthropy 2529  Michigan  Ave. 

Council  for  Library  and  Museum 

Extension The  Art  Institute. 

Field  Museum  of  Natural  His- 
tory      Jackson  Park. 

Hammond    Library 1610  Warren  Ave. 

John  Crerar  Library                         .  110  No.  Wabash  Ave. 

University  of  Chicago  Library  .      .  Harper      Memorial      Bldg., 

Midway  Plaisance. 

Virginia  Library 826  Belden  Ave. 

Western  Theological  Seminary  .      .  2720  Washington  Blvd. 

Women's  Trade  Union  League  of 

Chicago 166  W.  Washington  St. 


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PUBLIC    SCHOOL   SOCIAL    WORK 


Art   Institute  of   Cliicago    . 

Cliicago  Association  of  Commerce 

Chicago   Board   of   Education    . 

Chicago  Public  School  Art  Society 

Chicago  School  Extension  Com- 
mittee       

Chicago  Women's  Aid     . 

Civics  Extension   Committee 

Elizabeth  McCormick  Memorial 
Fund 

Frances  Juvenile  Home  . 

Juvenile   Detention  Home    . 

Juvenile    Protective    Association 

Outing  for  Crippled  Children    . 

School  Children's  Aid  Society   . 

University  of  Chicago  Settlement 


Grant  Park. 

10  So.  La  Salle  St. 

7  So.  IJearljorn  St. 

Art  Institute  of  Chicago. 

■2\7  J^ako  St.,  Oak  Park,  111. 
4622  Grand   Blvd. 
lit!  So.  Michigan  Ave. 


;515   Plymouth   Ct. 

3929  Indiana  Ave. 

771  Gilpin  PI. 

SHi  So.  HalstedSt. 

4917  Sheridan  Road. 

Haven  School,  Cor.  Wabash 

Ave.  and  15th  St. 
4630  Gross  Ave. 


TRAINING  SCHOOLS 

Chicago     Kindergarten     Institute 

and   School   of  Home   Making    .      54  Scott  St. 
Chicago     School     of     Civics     and 

Philanthropy 2559  Michigan  Ave. 

Chicago  Theological  Seminary  .  University  of  Chicago. 

Loyola  University,  School  of  Soci-       Ashland    Block,    Cor.    Clark 

ology and  Randolph  Sts. 

Mary    Crane    Day    Nursery    and 

Training   School 818  Gilpin   Place. 

McCormick  Theological  Seminary  .      2330  No.  Halsted  St. 
Men's  Training  College   (Salvation 

Army) 1230  W.  Adams  St. 

National  Kindergarten  College  .  2944  Michigan  Blvd. 

University  of  Chicago,   College  of 

Commerce    and   Administration, 

Philanthropic    Service    Division.      Midway   Plaiaance. 

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Appendix     15 


Woinaii's  Training  Colli'ge  (Sal- 
vation  Army) llli  So.  Aslilaiul    151  vd. 

Young  lien's  Christian  Associa- 
tion College 5315  Drexel   Ave. 


EMPLOYMENT 

Boliemian    Charitable    Association.  2603  So.  Kedzie  Ave. 
B'nai     B'rith     Free     Employment 

Bureau 1014  So.  Wood  St. 

Central   Issuing  Office   for   \\'ork- 

ing  Certificates 53S  So.  Dearborn  St. 

Cliieago  Board  of  Education,  Age 

and  School  Certificate  Office  .  (107  Plymouth  Ct. 

Chicago  Boys'  Club 1725  Orchard  St. 

Chicago        Christian        Industrial 

League S84  So.  State  St. 

Chicago   Woman's    Shelter    .      .      .  1356  W.  Monroe  St. 
Department    of     Public     Welfare, 

City    of    Chicago 130  No.  Fifth  Ave. 

Comrades'  Rescue  Mission    .      .      .  3143  Cottage   Grove  Ave. 

Dan  Batey  Mission 710  Wells  St. 

Gad's   HiU    Center 19<23  W.  20th  St. 

French  Benevolent  Society   .      .  Board  of  Trade. 

German  Society  of  Chicago  .  .  160  No.  Fifth  Ave. 

Hope      Hall      Volunteer      Prison 

League 6036  Ravenswood  Ave. 

Hyde  Park  Center 5435  Lake  Park  Ave. 

Illinois   Free   Employment   Offices.  524  So.    Dearborn    St.    and 

520  W.  Monroe  St. 
Japanese   Young   Men's   Christian 

Institute 2330  Calumet  Ave. 

Jewish    Agricultural    and    Indus- 
trial Aid  Society 706  W.  12th  St. 

Lincoln  St.  M.  E.  Church     .      .      .  Lincoln  St.  and  22nd  PI. 
Mary    Crane    Day    Nursery    and 

Training  School 818  Gilpin  Place. 


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Masonic  Employment  Bureau    . 

Negro  Fellowship  League  Reading 
Room  and  Social  Center   . 

New   Future  Association 

Norwegian-Danish  Young  Woman's 
Christian  Home  Society   . 

Parting  of  the  Ways  Home  . 

Phyllys  Wheatley  Home 

Polish  Self-Hclp  League  . 

St.    Joseph's    Hospita.1    . 

Salvation     Army      Workingmen's 
Hotels 

Sarah  Hackett  Stevenson  Memo- 
rial Lodging  House 

Society  of  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  of 
Chicago 

Union    Av^.    Methodist    Episcopal 
Church 

United  Charities  of  Chicago 

U.  S.  Department  of  Labor  . 

Women's  Exchange  of  Chicago  . 

Young    Men's    Christian    Associa- 
tion  Employment  Bureau 

Young    Women's    Christian    Asso- 
ciation Employment  Bureau 

Armenian   Colonial   Association 

City  and   Immigrant  Mission    . 

Immigrants'   Protective  League 

Japanese  Christian  Association 

Jewish    Agricultural    and    Indus- 
trial Aid   Society    .... 

Norwegian  National  League 


159  So.  State  St. 

3005  So.  State  St 
556  E.  37th  St. 

2137  Point  St. 
112  W.  22nd  St. 
3256  Rhodes  Ave. 
1133  W.  Chicago  Ave. 
2100  Burling  St. 
G21    W.    Madison    St,    (and 
other  places ) . 

2412  Prairie  Ave. 

1318,  8  So.  Dearborn  St. 
Cor.    43rd    PI.    and    Union 

Ave. 
168  No.  Michigan  Ave. 
845  So.  Wabash  Ave. 
67  E.  Madison  St. 

19  So.  La  Salle  St. 

830  So.  Michigan  Ave. 
837  No.  La  Salle  St. 
465  W.  Chicago  Ave. 
920  So.  Michigan  Ave. 
3850  Lake  Park  Ave. 

706  W.  12th  St. 
2742  W.  North  Ave. 


INDUSTRIAL  WELFAJIE 

Chicago    Telephone    Co.,    Welfare 

Supervisor 212  W.  Washington  St. 


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Appendix     B 


City    of    Chicago    Department    of 

Public  Welfare 130  No.  Fifth  Ave. 

Commonwealth   Edison    Co.,    Wel- 
fare  Department 72  W.  Adams  St. 

Illinois    Department    of     Factory 

Inspection 1543  Transportation  Bldg. 

Illinois  Steel  Co.,  Visiting  Nurse 
Work South  Chicago,  111. 

Industrial    Board   of    Illinois    .      .      City  Hall  Square  Bldg. 

International  Harvester  Co.,  Wel- 
fare Work GOO  So.  Michigan  Ave. 

Mandel     Bros.,     Supervisor     Wel- 
fare Work Cor.  State  and  Madison  Sts. 

Marshall    Field    &    Co.,    Welfare 

Work 121  No.  State  St. 

Montgomery    Ward    &    Co.,    Wel- 
fare Work 018  Chicago  Ave. 

People's   Gas    Light   &   Coke    Co., 

Welfare  Work People's  Gas  Bldg. 

Sherwin-Williams      Co.,      Welfare       116th    St.    and    Stephenson 
Work Ave. 

Siegel,    Cooper    &    Co.,     Welfare       Cor.   State  and  Van   Buren 
Work St«. 

WTiolesale    Clothiers'    Association 

of  Chicago 14  E.  Jackson  Blvd. 

Women's  Trade  Union   League  of 

Chicago 166  W\  Washington  St. 

Wm.    Wrigley,    Jr.    Co.,    Welfare 
Work 3527  So.  Ashland  Ave. 

VOCATIONAL   PLACEMENT 

Big  Brothers  of  Chicago     .      .      .      1818  Republic  Bldg. 
Bureau  of  Vocational  Supervision.      Jones  School,  Cor.  Plymouth 

Ct.  and  Harrison  St. 
Chicago  Association  of  Commerce  .      10  So.  La  Salle  St. 
Chicago  Collegiate  Bureau  of  Oc- 
cupations       16  No.  Wabash  Ave. 

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Appendices 


HUMES 

Aiigustaiia  Home  fur   the  Aged      .  754U  Stony  island  Ave. 

Baptist  Old  People's  Home  .  Maywood,  111. 

liethany  Home  of  the  Swedish  M. 

E.    Church .5015  No.  l^aulina  St. 

Bohemian  Old  People's  Home  and 

Orphan    Asylum 5061   No.  Crawford  Ave. 

Church  Home   for   Aged   Persons    .  4323  Ellis  Ave. 

Danish  Old  People's  Home  .  Cor.  Walnut  and  Clarendon 

Sts. 

Home    for   Aged   and    Inlirm    Col- 
ored People .-)  10  \V.  Garfield  Blvd. 

Home  for  Aged  Jews                       .  6140  Drexel  Ave. 

Home  for  the  Aged  of  tlie  Little  Cor.    Harrison    and    Throop 

Sisters  of  the  Poor      ....  Sts. 

Home    of    Rest,    Swedisli    Baptist 

Old  People's  Home  for  the  Aged,  11404  So.  Irving  Ave.,  Mor- 

Fridhem         gan  Park,  111. 

James  C.  King  Home  for  Old  Men .  300  E.  Garfield  Blvd. 

Lutheran  Old  Folks'  Home  .            .  Arlington    Heights,    111. 

Methodist  Episcopal   Old  People's 

Home 141.5  Foster  Ave. 

Norwegian  Lutheran  Bethesda  Home 

Association 2244  Haddon  Ave. 

Norwegian  Old  People's  Home  So- 
ciety    6058  Avondale  Ave. 

Old  People's  Home  of  the  City  of 

Chicago 4724  Vincennes   Ave. 

Olivet      Institute,      Old      People's 

Home 324  E.  29th  PI. 

Orthodox    Jewish    Home    for    the  Cor.   Albany   and   Ogden 

Aged         Aves. 

St.  Joseph's  Home  for  the  Aged   .  2049  No.  Hamlin  Ave. 

Swedish    Covenant    Hospital    and 

Home   of  Mercy 2730  Foster  Ave. 

Volunteers     of     America     Elderly 

Ladies'  Home 3334  ^Yarren  Ave. 

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Cmirtpsy  of  the  Field  Museum 


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Western  German  Baptist  Old  Peo-  Cor.    Cortland    and    Spaiild- 

pie's  Home ing  Ave. 

DEPENDENT  DEFECTIVES 

Home  for  Destitute  Crippled  Cliil- 

drcn 1653  Park  Ave. 

Illinois   Industrial   Home   for   the 

Blind rJOO  Marshall    Blvd. 

South     Side    Crippled     Children's 

Aid 3443  Vernon   Ave. 


DESTITUTE 


115  So.  Wood  St. 
5059  Vincennes  Ave. 


Chicago  Foundlings'  Home  . 
Chicago  Home  for  the  Friendless. 
St.    Joseph's    Catholic    Home    for 

the  Friendless 35th  St.  and  Lake  Park  Ave. 


LODGING  HOUSES  AND  SHELTERS 


Au^stana  Central  Home    . 
Cathedral  Shelter       .... 
Chicago  Christian  Industrial 

League 

Chicago   Woman's   Shelter    . 
Comrades'  Rescue  Mission    . 
Dan   Batey  Mission    .... 
McKinley  Working  Girls'  Home 
Municipal  Lodging  House,  City  of 

Chicago 

New   Future  Association 
Parting  of  the  Ways  Home 
Phyllys  Wheatley  House 
Rufus  F.  Dawes  Hotel   . 
Salvation  Army  Industrial  Home 

for  Men 


1346  No.  La  Salle  St. 
943  W.  ^^■ashington  Blvd. 


10  E.  12th  St. 

1356  W.  Monroe  St. 

3143  Cottage  Grove  Ave. 

710  Wells  St. 

501  So.  Ashland  Blvd. 

162  No.  Union  St. 
556  E.  37th  St. 
11.2  W.  22nd  St. 
3256  Rhodes  Ave. 
12  So.  Peoria  St. 

1325  W.  Congress   St. 


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17 


Appendices 


Salvation      Army      Workingmcn's       1011  So.    State    (and   other 
Hotels places). 

Sarah  Hackett  Stevenson  Memor- 
ial Lodging  House       ....      2412  Prairie  Ave. 

Voliinteers  of  America,  the  Volun- 
teer  Hotel 16  So.  Des  Plaines  St. 

Volunteers  of  America  Warehouse 

and  Men's  Home 16  So.  Des  Plaines  St. 

Workingmen's  Home  and  Mission 

(Colored) 1339  So.  State  St. 


HOMES  FOR  MEN 

Danish  Young  People's  Associa- 
tion     1214  No.  Claremont   Ave. 

Grace  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 

Brotherhood    House      ....      867  No.  La  Salle  St. 

Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion of  Chicago 19  So.  La  Salle  St. 

Japanese  Domestic  Workers' 
Home 3200  Calumet  Ave. 

Japanese   Young   Men's   Christian 

Institute 2330  Calumet  Ave. 


HOMES  FOR  WOMEN 

Augustana  Women's  Home  .  .  1307  E.  54th  St. 

Bethany  Home  for  Young  W^omen  .  824  Center  St. 

Bonnie  Hame  Association    .  .  826  Dakin  St. 

Danish    Young    People's    Associa- 
tion      1214  No.  Claremont  Ave. 

Eleanor  Association 16  No.  Wabash  Ave. 

German    Deaconess    Institute  See   Bethany    Home   for 

Yoimg  Women. 

Guardian  Angel  Day  Nursery  and 

Home  for  Girls 4600  Gross  Ave. 

Hobbs  House,  Girls'  Club   .      .      .  1011  No.  La  Salle  St. 


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Appendix     B 


Home  for   Jewish   Friendless  and 

Working  Girls 5228  Ellis  Ave. 

Immanuel  Woman's  Home  Asso- 
ciation       1505  No.  La  Salle  St. 

Indiana   House 12  E.  Grand  Avo. 

Josephine  Club 515  So.  Ashland  Blvd. 

McKinley  Working  Girls'  Home    .  503  So.  Ashland  Ave. 

Mercy  Home 2834  Wabash  Ave. 

Miriam  Club 4815  Champlain  Ave. 

Norwegian-Danish  M.  E.  Deaconess 

Woman's  Home 1925  No.  Sawyer  Ave. 

Norwegian-Danish  Young  Woman's 

Christian  Society 2137  Point  St. 

Ruth  Club 6001  Indiana  Ave. 

St.    Joseph's   Home    for   Working 

Girls 1100  So.  May  St. 

Susanna  Wesley  Home   .      .      .      .  3143  Michigan  Ave. 

Young  Woman's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation       830  Michigan  Ave. 


LEGAL  AID 

Appellate  Court 14th  Floor,  Michigan  Boule- 
vard Bldg. 

Circuit  Court 4th  Floor,  Court  House. 

County  Court 6th  Floor,  Court  Housa 

Criminal  Court Cor.  Austin  Ave.  and  Dear- 
born St. 

Juvenile   Court 10th  Floor,  Court  House. 

Municipal  Court  of  Chicago     .      .      Cth  and  9th  Floors,  City 

Hall. 

Probate    Court 6th  Floor,  Court  House. 

State's  Attorney's  Office  ....      2nd  Floor,  Criminal  Court 

Bldg. 

Superior  Court 4th  Floor,  Court  House. 

Supreme  Court 1022  County  Bldg. 

United  States  Circuit  Court      .      .      Federal  Bldg. 

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United  States  Court  of  Apj)eal8.      .      Federal  Bldg. 
United  States  District   Court    .      .      Federal  Bldg. 


SOCIETIES 


American    Social   Hygione   Associ- 
ation,  Inc 

Anti- Cigarette  League  of  America 
Anti-Cruelty   Society 
Bureau  of  Personal  Service  . 
Chicago  Bar  Association 
Chicago  Civil  Service  League   . 
Chicago  Law  and  Order  League 
Citizens'  Association  of  Chicago 
Citizens'  League  of  Chicago 
Civil    Service   Reform   Association 

of   Chicago 

Committee  of  Fifteen 
Illinois   Vigilance  Association    . 
Immigrants'  Protective  League 
Juvenile  Protective  Association 
Legal  Aid  Society      .... 
Public    Defenders'    Association    of 

Boys'  Court 

Society  of  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  of 

Chicago    

U.  S.  Immigration  Service  . 


122  So.  Michigan  Ave. 
1119  Woman's  Temple, 
llf)  \^'.  firand  Ave. 
1800  Selden  St. 
1110,  105  Monroe  St. 
301  Security  Bldg. 
19  So.  La  Salle  St. 
911  Hartford  Bldg. 
404  Ashland  Block. 

35  No.  Dearborn  St. 
807  Otis  Bldg. 
19  So.  La  Salle  St. 
920  So.  Michigan  Ave. 
816  So.  Halsted  St. 
31  W.  Lake  St. 

Boys'  Court,  County  Bldg. 


1318,  8  So.  Dearborn  St. 
845  So.  Wabash  Ave. 


MEDICAL  AID 

Department  of  Health,  City  of 
Chicago 7th  Floor,  City  Hall. 

Cook  County   Coroner's  Office    .      .      500  Court  House. 

Police  Department,  City  of  Chi- 
cago     615  City  Hall. 

Cook  County  Hospital,  Ambulance 

Service Cor.  Harrison  and  Wood  Sts. 

PRople's  Hospital 253  W.  22nd  St. 

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DISPENSARIES 


Bennett    Medical    Colle^    Dispen- 
sary     

Central  Free  Dispensary 

Calumet  Clinic 

Chicago  Christian  Industrial 
League 

Chicago  College  of  Osteopathy  . 

Chicago  Lying-in  Hospital  Dispen- 
sary    

Children's  South  Side  Free  Dis- 
pensary     

College  of  Medicine  and  Surgery   . 

Hope  Free  Dispensary    .... 

Jenner  Medical  College  Dispensary. 

Lincoln  Dispensary  of  Chicago,  Col- 
lege of  Medicine  and  Surgery  . 

Marcy    Center     (Methodist    Epis- 
copal)       

Mary  Thompson  Hospital  of  Chi- 
cago for  Women  and  Children 

Michael  Reese  Hospital  . 

Paulist  Day  Nursery 

Post  Graduate  Hospital  . 

Provident  Hospital  and  Dispensary 

St.  Elizabeth's  Day  Nursery 

St.  Elizabeth's  Free  Dispensary 

St.  Joseph's   Hospital    Dispensary 

St.  Luke's  Hospital   .... 

South  End  Center       .... 

South  Side  Dispensary    . 

West     Side    Dispensary     (Jewish 
Aid  Society) 


1358  W.  Fulton  St. 
1744  W.  Harrison  St. 
2527  Calumet  Ave. 

882  So.  State  St. 
1422  W.  Monroe  St. 

1336  Newberry  Ave. 

705  W.  47  th  St. 

Cor.    Congress    and   Honore 

Sts. 
Cor.    14th    St.    and   Wabash 

Ave. 
701  So.  Wood  St. 

700  So.  Lincoln  St. 

1335  Newberry  Ave. 

2537  Prairie  Ave. 

29th  St.  and  Groveland  Ave. 

919  So.  Wabash  Ave. 

2400  Dearborn  St. 

Cor.  36th  and  Dearborn  Sts. 

2649  No.  Hamlin  Ave. 

1360  No.  Ashland  Ave. 

2100  Burling  St. 

1431  So.  Michigan  Ave. 

88th  St.  and  BufTalo  Ave. 

2531  So.  Dearborn  St. 

1012  Maxwell   St. 


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DENTAL 

City     of     Cliicago     Department     of 

Health,  Dental  Clinics  7   So.  Dearborn  St. 

Jewish  Aid  Society  Dispensary, 

Dental  Clinic 1012  Maxwell  St. 

United  Charities,  Dental  Clinic  .      .      734  W.  47th  St. 


HOSPITALS 


Emergency  Aid  Hospital 
German-American  Hospital  . 
Iroquois  Memorial  Hospital 
Chicago  Eye,   Ear,  Nose,  and 

Throat  College  and  Hospital  . 
Illinois  State  Charitable  Eye  and 

Ear  Infirmary 

Alexian  Brothers  Hospital   . 
American    Hospital    .... 
Augustana  Hospital  .... 
Chicago  Union  Hospital  . 
Children's  Memorial  Hospital    . 
Cook  County  Hospital    . 

Deaconess  Society  and  Hospital 

Englewood  Hospital    .... 

Frances  K  Willard  National  Tem- 
perance Hospital     . 

German-American  Hospital  . 

German    Evangelical   Deaconess 
Home  and  Hospital 

German  Hospital  of  Chicago 

Hahnemann  Hospital 

Hospital  St.  Anthony  de  Padua 

Jefferson  Park  Hospital  . 

Maimonides  Hospital 

Mary  Thompson  Hospital   of  Chi 
cago  for  Women  and  Children 


621  Orleans  St. 

731  Diversey  Parkway. 

23  No.  Market  St. 

235  W.  Washington  St. 


904  W.  Adams  St. 

1200  Belden  Ave. 

2058  W.  Monroe  St. 

2043  Cleveland  Ave. 

830  Wellington  Ave, 

735   Fullerton  Ave. 

Cor.    Harrison    and    Honore 

Sts. 
408  W'isconsin  St. 
6001  Green  St. 

710  So.  Lincoln  St. 
731  Diversey  Parkway. 

5421  So.  Morgan  St, 

540  Grant  Place. 

2814  Groveland  Ave. 

inth  St.  and  Marshall  Blvd. 

1402  W.  Monroe  St. 

1510  So.  California  Ave. 

1712  W.  Adams  St. 


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Mercy  Hospital 

Michael  Reese  Hospital  . 
Norwegian  Lutheran  Deaconess 

Home  and  Hospital 
Norwegian  Tabitha  Hospital 
Park  Avenue  Hospital    . 
Passavant  Memorial  Hospital   . 
People's  Hospital        .... 
Post  Graduate  Hospital  . 
Presbyterian  Hospital 
Provident  Hospital     .... 
Ravenswood  Hospital  Association 
St.  Bernard's  Hospital    . 
St,  Elizabeth's  Hospital  . 
St.  Joseph's  Hospital 
St.  Luke's  Hospital    .... 
St.  Mary's  of  Nazareth  Hospital 
South  Chicago  Hospital  . 
Swedish  Covenant  Hospital  and 

Home  of  Mercy 

University  Hospital  .... 


Washington  Park  Hospital 
Wesley  Memorial  Hospital 


2537  Prairie  Ave. 

Cor.  29th  St.  and  Groveland 

Ave. 
1138  No.  Leavitt  St. 
1044  No.  Francisco  Ave. 
1940  Park  Ave. 
149  W.  Superior  St. 
253  W.  22nd  St. 
2400  Dearborn  St. 
Cor.  Congress  and  Wood  Sts. 
1600  W.  36th  St. 
1917  Wilson  Ave. 
6337  Harvard  Ave. 
1433  Claremont  Ave. 
2100  Burling  St. 
1431   So.  Michigan  Ave. 
1120  No.  Leavitt  St. 
2325  K  92nd  Place. 


2739  Foster  Ave. 

Cor.   Lincoln,    Congress    St., 

and  Ogden  Ave. 
437  E.  60th  St. 
Cor.  25th  and  Dearborn  Sts. 


Infectious  and  Contagious 
Contagious   Disease  Hospital    .      .      Cor.  34th  St.  and  Lawndale 
Durand  Hospital  of  Memorial  In-  Ave. 

etitute  for  Infectious  Diseases    .      637  So.  Wood  St. 
Frances  Juvenile  Home  ....      3929  Indiana   Ave. 

iBolation  Hospital Cor.    34th    St.    and    Hamlin 

Ave. 

Inoubables 
Chicago  Home  for  Incurables   .      .      5535  Ellis  Ave. 

Inebbiates   and   Dbug-Usebs 
Martha  Washington  Home  .  2318  Irving  Park  Blvd. 


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Sceleth  Emergency   Hospital  Cor.  26th  St.  and  California 

(House  of  Correction)  Ave. 

Waahingtonian  Home       ....  1.13,3  W.  Madison  St. 

Matebnitt 

Beulah  Home  and  Maternity  Hos- 
pital   of    Chicago 2142  No.  Clark  St. 

Chicago  Lying-in  Hospital    .      .      .  5038  Vincennes  Ave. 

Chicago    Maternity    Hospital    and 

Training  School  for  Nurses   .      .  2314  No.  Clark  St. 

Florence  Crittenton  Anchorage  .      .  2015  Indiana  Ave. 

Life  Boat  Rescue  Home  ....  Highlands   Station,   C.   B.  & 

Maternity  and  Infant  Hospital  of  Q.  Ry. 

Chicago 1900  So.  Kedzie  Ave. 

Salvation  Army  Rescue   and  Ma- 
ternity  Home 1332  No.  La  Salle  St. 

St.  Margaret's   Home   and    Mater- 
nity  Hospital 2501  Monroe  St. 

St.  Vincent's  Infant  Asylum       .      .  721  No.  La  Salle  St. 


Sanitabia   (Convalescent  Homes) 

Arden  Shore  Camp Lake  Bluflf,  111. 

Baron  Hirsch  Woman's  Club  ( Rest 

Cottage) 3127  Calumet  Ave. 

Chicago  Daily  News  Fresh  Air  Fund 

for  Sick  Babies  Sanitarium   .  Foot  of  Fullerton  Ave. 

Chicago    Home    for    Convalescent 

Women  and  Children  .      .  .      1516  Adams  St. 

Forward  Movement,  Chicago 

Office 638  Federal  St. 

Grove  House  for  Convalescents  .  1729  Livingston  St. 

Jackson  Park  Sanitarium,  La  Rabida 

Convent 64th  St.  and  the  Lake. 

Resthaven 5536  Dorchester  Ave. 

Tribune  Summer  Hospital   .      .      .      Algonquin,  111. 

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Social   Skbvice   Work 

Central     Free     Dispensarj',     Social 

Service  Department      ....  1744  W.  Harrison  St. 
Chicago  Lying-in  Hospital  and 

Dispensary 1336  Newberry  Ave. 

Children's  ^Memorial  Hospital    .      .  735  Fullerton  Ave. 

Cook  County  Hospital     ....  Cor.  Harrison      and      Wood 

Sts. 

Presbyterian  Hospital,  Social  Serv-  Cor.  Congress     and      Wood 

ice  Department Sts. 

Provident  Hospital Cor.  36th  and  Dearborn  Sts. 

Psychopathic   Hospital    ....  Cor.  Wood  and  Polk  Sts. 

St.  Joseph's  Hospital       .      .      ,      .  2100  Burling  St. 

St.  Luke's  Hospital 1431  So.  Michigan  Ave. 

Society  of  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  of 

Chicago,  Particular  Council  .      .  8  So.  Dearborn  St. 

Wesley  Memorial  Hospital  .      .      .  Cor.  25th  and  Dearborn  Sts. 
West  Side  Ladies'  Auxiliary  of  the 

Maimonides  Hospital  of  Chicago.  1519  So.  California  Ave. 

INSTITUTIONS  FOR  DEFECTIVES 

Country    Home    for    Convalescent 

Children Prince  Crossing,  111. 

Home  for  Destitute  Crippled 

Children 1653  Park  Ave. 

Outings  for  Crippled  Children  .      .  4917  Sheridan  Koad. 

Central    Free    Dispensary     (Rush 

Medical  College) 1744  W.  Harrison  St. 

Illinois    Society    for    Mental    Hy- 
giene          157  E.  Ohio  St. 

Department    of    Child    Study    and 
Educational    Research,    Chicago 

Board   of   Education    ....  806  Tribune  Bldg. 

House  of  Correction Cor.  W.  26th  St.  and  Cali- 
fornia Ave. 

Juvenile  Psychopathic  Institute     .  771  Gilpin  Place. 

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Municipal  Court  Psychopathic 

Laboratory 1 109  City  Hall. 

Psychopathic  Hospital     ....      Cor.  Harrison  and  WVkxI  Sts. 

University  of  Chicago  Psycho- 
pathic Laboratory 5810  Ingleside  Ave. 


NURSING 
Bureau     of     Medical     Inspection, 
Field  Nursing  Service,  Board  of 

Education 

German  Deaconess  Institute 
German   Baptist  Deaconess   Home 

and  Hospital  Society   . 
Illinois  Society  for  Mental  Hygiene 
Illinois  State  Association  for  Gra( 

uate  Nurses 

Infant  Welfare  Society  . 
Municipal  Tuberculosis  Sani- 
tarium      

Norwegian-Danish  M.  E.  Deaconess 

Home 

Poor  Handmaids  of  Jesus  Christ 
Provident   Hospital    .... 
Red  Cross  Nursing  Service  . 
The  Visitincr  Nurse  Association  of 


7th  Floor,  City  Hall. 
824  Center  St. 

3266  Cortland  St. 
157  E.  Ohio  St. 

f.138  Winthrop  Ave. 
104  So.  Michigan  Ave. 

1514,  105  \Y.  Monroe  St, 


1925  No.  Sawyer  Ave. 
1044  Hudson  Ave. 
("or.  3Gtli  and  Dearborn  Sts. 
1910  Calumet  Ave. 


Chicago 104  So.  ^Michigan  Ave. 

TUBERCULOSIS 
Chicago  School  Extension  Committee     90G,  410  So.  Michigan  Ave. 
Open-Air  Schools,  Board  of  Educa- 
tion      7  So.  Dearborn  St. 

Elizabeth  McCormick  Memorial  Fund     315  Plymouth  Court. 

Sanitaria  and  Dispensaries 
Chicago  Fresh  Air  Hospital  .      .      .      2450  Howard  St. 
Chicago     Municipal     Tuberculosis        Cor.  Crawford  and  Bryn 
Sanitarium Mawr  Aves. 


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Chicago-Winfield  Tuberculosis  Sani- 
tarium       Winfield,  111. 

Edward  Sanatorium Najierville,   111. 

Oak  Forest  Tuberculosis  Hospital.  Oak  Forest,  111. 

Ridge  Farm  Preventorium   .      .      .  Doerfield,  III. 


Societies 


Chicago  Tuberculosis  Institute  . 

Illinois  State  Association  for  the 
Prevention  of   Tuberculosis    . 

Jewish  Consumptives'  Relief  So- 
ciety   1800  Selden  St. 


8  So.  Dearborn  St. 
8  So.  Dearborn  St. 


MORAL  REFORM 


Anti-Cruelty  Society  .... 

Illinois  Humane  Society  . 

American  Social  Hygiene  Associa- 
tion     

Anti-Cigarette  League  of  America 

Beulah  Home  and  Maternity  Hos- 
pital   of   Chicago    .... 

Catholic  Women's  League  Protec- 
torate        

Chicago  Society  of  Social  Hygiene 

Committee  of  Fifteen 

Englewood  Law  and  Order  League 

Florence  Crittenton  Anchorage  . 

Grace  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 

Hyde  Park  Protective  Association 
Illinois  Vigilance  Association    . 
Life  Boat  Rescue  Mission     . 


Midnight  Mission  . 
New  Future  Association 


155  W.  Grand  Ave. 
1145  So.  Wabash  Ave. 

122  So.   Michigan   Ave. 
1119  Woman's  Temple. 

2142  No.  Clark  St. 

7  W.  Madison  St, 

32  No.  State  St. 

807  Otis  Bldg. 

331  W.  G3rd  St. 

2615  Indiana   Ave. 

Cor.    Locust    and    La    Salle 

Sts. 
19  So.  La  Salle  St. 
19  So.  La  Salle  St. 
Highlands  Station,  C,  B.  & 

Q.  By. 

11  E.  Congress  St. 
556  E.  37th  St. 


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Norwegian-Danish  M.  E.  Deaconess 

^^'o^lan's  Home 1925  No.  Sawyer  Ave. 

St.  Margaret's  Home  and  Mater- 
nity Hospital 2501  W.  Monroe  St. 

Salvation  Army  Rescue  and  Ma- 
ternity  Home 1332  No.  La  Salle  St. 

Travelers'  Aid  Society  of  Chicago 

and  Illinois 1319  W.  Adams  St. 

Welfare  League 213G  Federal  St. 

Workingmen's  Home  and  Mission 

(Colored) 1339  So.   State  St. 

TEMPERANCE 

Anti-Saloon  league  of  Illinois  .      .  189  W.  Madison  St. 
Catholic  Total  Abstinence  Union  of 

Illinois 804  So.  Wabash  Ave. 

Citizens'  League  of  Chicago  .      .      .  404  Ashland  Block. 
Illinois  Branch  Women's  Christian 

Temperance  Union 1118  Woman's  Temple. 

Young  People's  Civil  League     .      .  301,  189  W.  Madison  St. 

NEIGHBORHOOD  WORK 
Assembly  Halls  in   Public  Schools  and  Park   Fieluiiouses 

Abraham  Lincoln  Center       .      .      .  Cor.  Oakwood  Blvd.  and 

Langley  Ave. 

Aiken  Institute Cor.  Morgan  and  Monroe 

Sts. 

Association  House 2150  W.  North  Ave. 

Bethlehem  Congregational  Church.  1853  So.  Loomis  St. 

Bible  Rescue  Mission       ....  026  W.  Madison  St. 

Bohemian  Settlement  House       .      .  1831  So.  Racine  Ave. 

Cathedral     SS.     Peter     and     Paul  Cor.  Washington  B\vC    and 
(Episcopal)         ......  Peoria  St. 

Catholic  Social  Center    ....  308  So.   Sangamon  St. 

Chase  House 543  W.  43rd  St. 

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Chicago  Hebrew  Mission       .      .      .      1425  Solon  Fl. 

Christopher  House  Settlement 

(Presbyterian)         1618  Fullerton  Ave. 

Church  of  the  Brethren  Mission    .      1523  Hastings  St. 

Church  of  the  Epiphany  (Episcopal)      Cor.  Ashland  Blvd.  and 

Adams  St. 

Marcy  (Elizabeth)  Center  (M.  E.)  .      1335  Newberry  Ave. 

Erie   Chapel    Institute    (Presbyter- 
ian)   1347  Erie  St. 

First  Presbyterian  Church  .      .      .      Cor.  41st  St.  and  Grand 

Blvd. 

Fourth  Presbyterian  Church      ,      .      Cor.  Lincoln  Park  Blvd.  a,nd 

Chestnut  St. 

Grace  Methodist  Episcopal  Church .      Cor.    Locust    and    La    Salle 

Halsted   St.    Institutional   Church  Sts. 

(M.  E.) 1935  Halsted  St. 

Hermon  Beardsley  Butler  House   .      3212  Broadway. 

Kirkland  Mission 764  W.  Adams  St. 

Lincoln  St.  M.  E.  Church   .      .      .      Cor.   Lincoln   St.   and  22nd 

PI. 

Moody  Church Cor.    Chicago   Ave.    and   La 

Neighborhood  Guild,   Inc.    (Episco-         Salle  St. 

pal) 2714  So.  Canal  St. 

New  First  Congregational  Church  .      Cor.  Ashland  and  Washing- 
ton Blvds. 

Olivet  Institute  (Presbyterian)       .      1500  Hudson  Ave. 

Oratorio  S.  Paola 874  Blue  Island  Ave. 

Paulist  Settlement 1122  So.  Wabash  Ave. 

Second  Presbyterian  Church       .      .      Cor.  Michigan  Ave.  and  20th 

St. 

ShefBeld  Avenue  Church  of  Christ,        Cor.      Sheffield      Ave.      and 
or  North  Side  Christian  Church  .  George  St. 

Sinai   Social  Center 4622  Grand  Blvd. 

Union  Avenue  Methodist  Episcopal 

Church 43rd  PI.  and  Union  Ave. 

Volunteers     of    America     Institu- 
tional  Church 1201  Washington  Blvd. 

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Wabash    Avenue   Methodist   Epis- 
copal Church 14th  St.  and  Wabash  Ave. 

Wellington  Avenue  Congregational  Near  liroadway,  on  Welling- 

Church ton  St. 


COiEMUNITY  SELF-BETTERMENT 


Hamilton  Park  Neighborhood  Coun- 
cil         

Harrison    Technical    High    School 

District  Community  Council  . 
Kenwood  Improvement  Association 
Lakeside  Improvement  Association 
North  Shore  Sunday  Evening  Club 
Northwest  Side  Commercial  Asso- 
ciation       

Palmer  Park  Community  Council 
Ravenswood  Improvement  Associa- 
tion     

Seventh  Ward  Civic  Forum  . 


72iid  St.  and  Normal   Blvd. 

2222  Marshall  Blvd. 

1343  E.  47th  St. 

Toth   St.  and   Coles  Ave. 

Cor.  Sheridan  Road  and 
Wilson  Ave. 

1152  No.  Ashland  Ave. 

Cor.  lUth  St.  and  Indiana 
Ave. 

Chicago,  111. 

Woodlawn  Masonic  Tem- 
ple, 64th  St.  and  Univer- 
sity Ave. 


SETTLEMENTS 

Chicago  Commons 955  W.  Grand  Ave. 

Eli  Bates  House (521  W.  Elm  St. 

Emerson  House 1746  Grand  Ave. 

Esther  Falkenstein  Settlement  .      .  1!H7  No.  Richmond  St. 

Fellowship  House 831   W.  33rd  PI. 

Frederick  Douglass  Center   .      .      .  3032  Wabasli   Ave. 

Gad's  Hill  Center 1919  W.  20tli  St. 

Henry  Booth  House 701   W.  14th  PI. 

Hull  House 800  So.  Halsted   St. 

Maxwell  Street  Settlement  .      .      .  1214  So.  Clinton  St. 

Neighborhood  House 6710  So.  May  St. 

Northwestern     University     Settle- 
ment    1400  Augusta  St. 

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St.    Mary's    Settlement    and    Day 

Nursery (ioG  W.  44th  St. 

South  Deering  Neighborhood  Center  10750  Hoxie  Ave. 

South  End  Center SSth  St.  and  Buffalo  Ave. 

University  of   Chicago  Settlement .  4G30  Gross  Ave. 

Wendell   Phillips   Settlement      .      .  2009  Walnut  St. 


SOCIAL  CENTERS 


Chicago  Board  of  Education   (Cen- 
ters in  22  school  buildings) 

Chicago  Hebrew   Institute    . 

Chicago  Deaf  Mute  Club 

Eleanor  Social  Center 

Ephpheta  School  for  the  Deaf 

Junior  League  of  Chicago    . 

Guardian  Angel  Center   . 

Hungarian  Workingmen's  Home 

Hyde  Park  Center      .... 

Negro  Fellowship  League  Readin 
Room  and  Social  Center   . 

Our  Lady  of  Victory  Mission    . 


S  No.  Dearborn  St. 
1258  W.  Taylor  St. 
1114  W.   12th  St. 
l.Tlo  No.  Leavitt  St. 
3100  Crawford  Ave. 
35  So.  Dearborn  St. 
1226  Newberry  Ave. 
133G  Sedgwick   St. 
5435  Lake  Park  Ave. 

3005  So.  State  St. 
845  So.  State  St. 


PUBLIC  AGENCIES 
Chicago  City  Council       ....      2nd  Floor,  City  Hall. 
City  of  Chicago  Executive,  Finance, 
Law,      Public      Safety,     Public 
Works,  Welfare,  Recreation,  and 

Education  Departments     .      .      .      City   Hall,   and   other   loca 

tions,  as  noted  separately. 


RECREATION 

Abraham  Lincoln  Center       .      .      .      Cor.     Oakwood     Blvd.     and 

Langley  Ave. 

Association  House 2150  W.  North  Ave. 

Council  Home   (Jewish)        .      .      .      43C3  Greenwood  Ave. 


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Chicago  Boy  Scouts  of  America 
Eleanor  Association  .... 
Forward  Movement  .... 
Friends  of  Our  Native  Landscape 
Hull  House  Association  . 
Hull  House  Boys'  Department  . 
Lincoln  Street  M.   E.  Church    . 

^Moody  Church  Fresh  Air  Camp 
North  Avenue  Day  Nursery 
Norwegian-Danish  M.  E.  Deaconess 

Woman's  Home  .... 
OfF-the-Street  Club  .... 
Outing  for  Crippled  Children   . 

Prairie  Club 

St.  Mary's  Home  for  Children  . 
St.  Mary's     Mission     Home,     Day 

Nursery  and  Kindergarten  . 
Society  of  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  of 

Chicago 

United  Charities  of  Chicago 
Young    Men's    Associated    Jewish 

Charities 


425,  39  So.  La  Salle  St. 

10  No.  Wabaah  Ave. 

638  Federal  St. 

108  E.  Walton  PI. 

800  So.  Halsted  St. 

827  W.  Polk  St. 

Cor.    Lincoln   St.    and   22nd 

PI. 
808  No.  La  Salle  St. 
2138  W.  North  Ave.      . 

192.5  No.  Sawyer  Ave. 
1369  Van  Buren  St. 
4917  Sheridan  Road. 
1510  McConnick  Bldg. 
2822  Jackson  Blvd. 

850  Washington  Blvd. 

1318,  8  So.  Dearborn  St. 
168  No.  Michigan  Ave. 

1800  Selden  St. 


RELIEF    AND    FA^VIILY    REHABILITATION 

American  National  Red  Cross   .      .  112  W.  Adams  St. 

Armenian  Colonial  Association  .      .  837  No.  La  Salle  St. 

Associated     Jewish     Charities     of 

Chicago 1800  Selden  St. 

Bohemian  Charitable  Association   .  2603  So.  Kedzie  Ave. 

Catholic  Woman's  League  Protec- 
torate         7  W.  Madison  St. 

Charity  Alliance 6826  Perry  Ave. 

Chicago     Christian     Industrial     12  E.  12th  St. 
League     

City  and  Immigrant  Mission     .      .  465  W.  Chicago  Ave. 

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Appendix     B 


Chrysolite  Club 55th  St.  and  Blackjstuiie  Ave. 

Community  Relief   Association   of 

Ninth  Ward 11 1th  St.  and  Indiana  Ave. 

County  Agent 21.3  So.  Peoria  St. 

Federated  Orthodox  Jewish  Chari- 
ties       1800  Selden  St. 

French  Benevolent  Society   .      .      .  Board  of  Trade. 

Friendly  Aid  Society 3980  Lake  Park  Ave. 

German   Charity  Association      .      .  La  Salle  Hotel. 

German  Society  of  Chicago  .      .      .  160  No.  Fifth  Ave. 

Hope      Hall      Volunteer      Prison 
Lea^ie  Department,  Volunteers 

of  America 1201   Washington   Blvd. 

Harmony  Guild 637  Oakwood  Blvd. 

Hungarian  Charity  Society  .      .      .  317  So.  Market  St. 

Illinois  Charitable  Relief  Corps       .  804  So.  Wabash  Ave. 

Italian  Ladies' Charity  Association.  732  So.  Oakland  Blvd. 

Jewish  Aid  Society 1800  Selden  St. 

Junior  League  of  Chicago   ...  35  So.  Dearborn  St. 

Juvenile  Court,  Pension  Department  10th  Floor,  Court  House. 

Klio  Association Auditorium  Hotel. 

Lake  View  Thimble  Club       .      .      .  3212  Broadway. 

Ministerial    Relief   Association    of 

Illinois 54  Randolph  St. 

Morgan  Park  Welfare  Association  .  11112  So.  Hoyne  Ave. 

Norwegian  Lutheran  Deaconess 

Home  and  Hospital     .  .      .  1138  No.  Leavitt  St. 

St.  Elizabeth  Benevolent  Associa- 
tion      1439  Wellington  Ave. 

St.  Elizabeth  Charity  Society   .      .  2225  So.  Turner  Ave. 

Swiss  Benevolent   Society  of  Chi- 
cago     

Salvation  Army 108  No.  Dearborn  St. 

School  Children's  Aid  Society   .      .  Haven   School,   15th  St.  and 

Wabash  Ave. 

Service  Club 4929  Greenwood  Ave. 

Sheffield  Avenue  Church  of  Christ.  Cor.      Sheffield      Ave.      and 

George   St. 

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Appendices 


Society  of  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  of 

Chicago 

Sopliia  Aid  Society     . 
Swedish  National  Association 
United  Charities  of  Chicago 
Volunteers  of  Chicago 
Wabansia  Relief  Society  . 
Woman's  Aid  and   T>oan   Society 
Woman's  Benevolent  Association 
Young     Men's     Associated     Jewish 
Charities 


1318  Hartford  Bldg. 

437  E.  GOth  St. 

143  No.  Dearborn  St. 

108  No.  Michigan  Ave. 

1201   Washington   Blvd. 

2i2')7  No.  Sawyer  Ave. 

Irving  Park. 

9126  Commercial  Ave. 

1800  Selden   St. 


THRIFT  AND  LOANS 

Benevolent     Association     of    Paid 

Fire  Department  of  Cliicago  .      .      209  No.  Dearborn  St. 

Chicago     Letter-Carriers'     Benevo- 
lent Association 4954  W.  Erie  St. 

Chicago    Masonic    Relief    Associa- 
tion     139  No.  Clark  St. 

Chicago  Teachers'  Relief  Society   .      2717  Wilcox  Ave. 

Concordia  Mutual  Benefit  League  .      106  No.  La  Salle  St. 

Firemen's  Mutual  Aid  and  Benefit 

Association 50  E.  South  Water  St. 

French  Mutual  Aid  Society  of  Chi- 
cago    1237  So.  Spaulding  Ave, 

Gustaf  Adolfs  Swedish  Society  .      .      2244  So.  Irving  Ave. 

National  Fraternal  Society  of  the 

Deaf ,602  Schiller  Bldg. 

Plattdeutsche  Grot  Gilde      .      .      .      Wicker  Park  Hall. 

Chicago  State  Pawners'  Society       .      32  W.  Washington  St. 

First  State  Industrial  Wage  Loan 

Society 25  No.  Dearborn  St. 

Jewish  Agricultural  and  Industrial 

Aid  Society 700  W.  12th  St. 

Maxwell    Street   Settlement   Asso- 
ciation      1214  So.   Clinton   St. 

Woman's  Aid  and  Loan  Society       .      Irving  Park. 

Woman's  Loan  Association  .      .      .      735  So.  Marshfield  Ave. 

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INDEX 


INDEX 


Apollo  Club,  Tlie,  30. 

Art  Institute  of  Chicago,  1-20, 

79,  109,  110. 
Art  in  Chicago,  1-21;  Arts  and 

Crafts    Room    in    the   Public 

Library,  60. 

Baptists,    Philanthropic    Work 

of,  159-163. 
Bathing  Beaches,  95. 
Board  of  Education,  45-54. 
Boys'    and    Girls'    Clubs,    116, 

117;  list  of,  223. 

Carter  Harrison  Technical  High 

■  School,  109. 

Charitable  Organizations,  List 
of,  223-256. 

Chicago,  its  beginnings  and  de- 
velopment, iii,  iv;  nationali- 
ties making  up  its  popula- 
tion, V. 

Chicago  Commons,  201,  202. 

Chicago  Symphony  Orchestra, 
27,  28. 

Children's  Memorial  Hospital, 
124,  125. 

Child  Welfare,  115,  116. 

Child  Welfare  Associations, 
List  of,  223. 

Choral  Societies,  30. 

Civic  Betterment,  120,  121,  123; 
institutions,  list  of,  228. 

Civic  Music  Association,  33. 

Clubs  and  Classes,  231. 


Community  Churches  and  Set- 
tlements, 199;  self-better- 
ment organizations,  199,  200. 

Community  Self  -  Betterment, 
252. 

Conservatories  of  Music,  31. 

Corrections,  Institutions  of, 
118,  230. 

Dancing,   100. 

Day  Nurseries,  117,  118;  list 
of,  224,  225. 

Defectives  and  Subnormals,  In- 
stitutions for,  231,  232,  247. 

Dental  Aid,  244. 

Dependent  Children,  Institu- 
tions for,  118,  225-227. 

Dependent  Defectives,  Institu- 
tions for,  239. 

Destitute,  Homes  for  the,  239. 

Dispensaries,  243. 

Education,   119. 
Eli  Bates  House,  202. 
Emerson  House,  202. 
Employment  Agencies,  120,  235, 

236. 
Episcopalians,        Philanthropic 

Work  of,  137-142. 
Esther  Falkenstein   Settlement, 

203. 


Fellowship  House,  203. 
Field  Museum,  72,  79. 


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Index 


Foreign-born      Population      of 

Chicago,  V. 
Franklin  Park,  82. 
Frederick  Douglass  Center,  203. 

Gad's  Kill  Center,  204. 
Games,  95,  103. 
Grand  Opera  in  Chicago,  28,  29. 
Grant  Park,  78,  79. 
Gymnasiums,  92,  93. 

Hamilton  Park,  Activities,  105- 
108. 

Henrj'  Booth  House,  204. 

Historical  Society,  The  Chi- 
cago, 05. 

Homes,  for  the  aged,  120 ;  for 
the  destitute,  239;  for  the 
friendless,  129-131 ;  for  in- 
curables, 245 ;  for  inebriates, 
245,  246  ;  maternity,  246 ;  for 
men,  240 ;  for  women,  240, 
241;   list  of,  238,  239. 

Hospitals,  244,  245. 

Hull  House,  204-206. 

Immigrants,    Associations     for 

Welfare  of,  232. 
Incurables,  Home  for,  245. 
Industrial      Institutions,      232, 

233. 
Industrial  Welfare,  236,  237. 
Inebriates,  Homes  for,  245,  240. 

Jackson  Park  72-74. 
Juvenile  Court,  the,  126,  127. 
Jewish     Associated     Charities, 
169,    170. 


Legal  Aid,  121;  list  of  sources 
of,  241,  242. 

Library,  the  Public,  55-63. 

Libraries,  Ryerson,  4,  14 ;  Pub- 
lic, 55-03;  Newberry,  63,  04; 
John  Crerar,  64,  65 ;  Chicago 
School  of  Civics,  65 ;  list  of, 
233. 

Lincoln  Park,  80,  81. 

Lincoln  Park  Commissioners, 
80,  81. 

Lodging  Houses  and  Shelters, 
239,  240. 

Lutlierans,  Philanthropic  Work 
of,  156-159. 

Marquette  Park,  74. 

Maternity  Homes  and  Hospi- 
tals, 246. 

Maxwell  Street  Settlement,  206. 

Medical  Aid,  121,  242. 

Methodists,  Philantliropic  \\Tork 
of,  150-156. 

"Midway,"  75. 

Moral  Reform,  122 ;  associa- 
tions, 249,  250. 

Municipal  Pier,  95. 

^Museums,  List  of,  233. 

Music,  Chicago  as  a  center  of, 
23-38;  Apollo  Club,  30;  con- 
servatories of  music,  31 ; 
Civic  ■Music  Association,  33 ; 
spring  festivals,  33,  34;  li- 
braries of,  35. 

Neighborhood  House,  206. 
Neighborhood   Work,    122,    199- 
209;   associations,  250-252. 


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Index 


Northwestern    University    Set- 
tlement, 207. 
Nursing  Institutions,  248. 


Paintings  in  Chicago  Homes, 
19. 

Parks  and  Boulevards,  67-86; 
list  of,  213,  214,  217-221. 

Parking  Boards,  89. 

Park  Commissioners,  West  Chi- 
cago, 69;  Lincoln  Park,  69; 
South  Park,  69,  70;  other 
boards  and  commissioners, 
71,  72,  89,  90. 

Parks,  Efficient  Service  of  the, 
108. 

Philanthropic  Work,  Summary 
of,  113-133. 

Philanthropic  Work  of  Re- 
ligious Organizations,  135- 
195. 

Physical  Condition  Associa- 
tions, 228,  229. 

Placing  in  Families  Institu- 
tions,  227. 

Playgrounds,  53,  93,  94;  list  of, 
214-217. 

Poor  Children's  Picnic,  194. 

Presbyterians,  Philanthropic 
Work  of,  142-150, 

Public  Agencies,  253. 

Public  Culture  Associations, 
229. 

Public  Health  Associations,  229. 


Public  Schools,  39-54;  Board  of 
Education,  45-54;  teclinical 
schools,  44 ;  blind,  scliools  for 
the,  48;  deaf,  schools  for  the, 
49. 

Public  School  Social  Work,  234. 

Public  Welfare  Associations, 
,229,  230. 

Public  Welfare  Departments, 
131,  132. 

Recreation   Centers,   99-103. 

Recreation,  Public,  87-112;  in- 
stitutions, 253,  254. 

Relief  and  Family  Rehabilita- 
tion Institutions,  254,  255. 

Religious  Organizations,  Phil- 
anthropic Work  of,  135-195. 

Roman  Catholics,  Philanthropic 
Work  of,  177-190. 

Ryerson  Library,  4,  14. 

St.  INIary's  Settlement  Day 
Nursery,  207. 

Salvation   Army,   Pliilanthropic 

Work  of,  170-177. 
Sanitaria  (convalescent  homes), 

246. 

Settlements,  200-209. 

Social  Centers,  200,  253. 

Social  Service  Work  Institu- 
tions, 247. 

Societies,  242. 

South  Deering  Neighborhood 
Center,  207. 

South  End  Center,  208. 


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South  Park  Commissioners,  and 
the  Art  Institute,  2;  and 
Jackson  Park,  74,  76;  and 
small  parks,  79;  and  Poor 
Children's  Picnic,  194. 

Spring  Festivals,  33,  34. 
Swimming  Pools,  94,  95. 

Technical  Schools,  44. 
Temperance  Organizations,  250. 
Thrift    and    Loan    Institutions, 

256. 
Training  Schools,  234,  235. 
Tuberculosis    Institutions,    248, 

249. 
Tuberculosis     Sanitarium,     the 

Municipal,  51. 

United  Charities,  128,  129. 


University  of  Cliicago  Settle- 
ment, 208. 

Vocational  Placement  Institu- 
tions, 237. 

Volunteers  of  America,  Pliilan- 
thropic  Work  of,  190-194. 

Washington  Park,  75-78. 

Wendell  Phillips  Settlement, 
208. 

West  Park  Commissioners,  82- 
84. 

West  Side  Parks  and  Play- 
grounds, 81-85. 

Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion, 1G4-168. 

Young  Women's  Christian  As- 
sociation, 168. 


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